Naming Species in Colombia’s Biodiverse Landscapes
There is a unique pair of rules on Sattins Island, in Ursula K. Le Guin’s world of Earthsea. This pair is called …
A wildcat doesn’t change its spots: Gold mining on Indigenous lands in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
A shootout on May 10 between Yanomami Indigenous people and heavily armed illegal miners in Roraima state, Brazil, left three miners and …
Unlikely Blessings: A poem on hope, despair and periwinkle
This poem, written fifteen years ago as my youngest son began (thankfully successful) chemotherapy for a rare immune system disease, was recently published …
Memoria y Salud Andino-Amazónica
En el 18 de julio de 2020, participé en un evento interdisciplinario organizado por el grupo estudiantil Abya Yala (de Ohio State) …
Christine Wilson 2020 Graduate Award Winner
SAFN is happy to announce that the 2020 winner of the Christine Wilson Award for a graduate student is Terese Gagnon, of …
"The Camera is our Weapon": Kayapó video warriors featured in new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York
The Kayapó (Megengôkrê) people of Brazil are living proof of the resistance and adaptability of Indigenous cultures. A new exhibit at the American Museum …
Fifty Shades of Green: Reflecting back on the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent in the age of coronavirus [excerpt]
The tragic death from coronavirus of indigenous actor Antonio Bolivar, star of the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent, has made me …
Yellow Jessamine: A coronavirus haiku
Yellow jessamine infects a premature Spring: Fragrant and lethal. Gelsemium sempervirens, known as yellow jessamine or Carolinajasmine, is a toxic plant with alkaloids related to…
#ExistenceOnSearch: Multispecies encounters and knowledge dialogue at the in-between space
Este contenido está disponible en español aquí. #BecomingBioDiverse Photograph by Felipe Villegas. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. Image …
The Sargassum Question
Close-up of sargasso, Puerto Morelos, 2019. Photo by the author. Sitting in her office, I could smell the sharp scent of hydrogen …
Keeping Arctic animals makes sense!
The Arctic Ark team has presented their work of the last four years in human-animal relations in the Arctic at the Finnish …
“Radical Bricoleurs”: On Doing Science, Community Life, Activism and Bureaucracy in Mozambique
By Anselmo Matusse, University of Cape Town § One day I was walking with Mr. Angelo, 69 years old, a former Renamo soldier, …
Maya Milpa Workshop at OSU’s Waterman Farm
Last Friday and Saturday, we hosted a workshop that invited students, faculty, and staff from Ohio State (as well as new friends …
Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part II
By Kristina Lyons, University of California, Santa Cruz § The president of the communal action committee whom I call Doña Marta ushered me …
On Contamination: Conservation Science in Devilish Landscapes
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, Grignon, France § When you first see the gold mine in Alhué you are impressed …
Lessons from the Catwoman: Extinction and resilience of Amazonian fauna [exerpt from SAPIENS]
Francisco Evangelista, a Paumari Indian who grew up along the Piranha River within the Purus River basin in the Brazilian Amazon, tells …
Lessons from the Catwoman: Extinction and resilience of Amazonian fauna [exerpt from SAPIENS]
Francisco Evangelista, a Paumari Indian who grew up along the Piranha River within the Purus River basin in the Brazilian Amazon, tells …
Lessons from the Catwoman: Extinction and resilience of Amazonian fauna [exerpt from SAPIENS]
Francisco Evangelista, a Paumari Indian who grew up along the Piranha River within the Purus River basin in the Brazilian Amazon, tells …
Jessica Dempsey on Enterprising Nature: Economics, Markets, and Finance in Global Biodiversity Politics
A great new book from Jessica Dempsey (UBC Geography). Description below and a short animated video from her website. The publisher’s description …
Of Quinoa, Agricultural Science, and Social Change – New Essay from Adam Gamwell on the Savage Minds Anthropologies Projects
Photo: Colin Stone Peacock TAL’s Adam Gamwell has a new essay about his research on quinoa biodiversity in Peru out on Savage …
Disability as Diversity: A New Biopolitics by Michele Friedner
We’re a medical anthropologist and a literary critic, and while our research interests seemingly have little overlap, we found ourselves engaged in …
Fernando Vidal’s and Nélia Dias’s Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture by Frédéric Keck
Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture By Fernando Vidal and Nélia Dias (editors) Routledge, 2016, 264 pages What do natural reserves, botanical and zoological …
21st century ‘barbarians’: Modernity, the breeding of fighting bulls and EU farming subsidies
This is an extended version of an article orginally published in The Conversation. I am grateful to the editors there for their …
Meeting the world’s youngest farmers of native cattle in the world’s coldest inhabited place
During fieldwork for our Arc Ark research project, I walk the street in Sakkyryr, the central village of the Eveno-Bytantay Ulus (District) …