Adieu, Bruno Latour!
By Barbara Arisi and Jean Segata In order to celebrate the mes de los muertos (month of the dead), we write this obituary. We pay homage to one…
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An urgent and important initiative to move forward with EU support of Arctic research together with Indigenous communities
I would like to encourage you with this post to fill in a short anonymous survey on your experiences and challenges with the co-creation of knowledge here: https://survey.hifis.dkfz.de/351545…
An Ecology of Knowledges: An Interview with Micha Rahder
An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation By Micha Rahder, Independent Scholar 336pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press § Colin Hoag spoke…
Don’t let partial views of human nature obscure our innate capacity to address the environmental crisis 
Arif Jamal During the vortex of climate debate around Glasgow’s COP26, I was struck by a depressing consensus reached by some of the UK’s most prominent environmentalists: humans…
Juan Luis Rodríguez on his book, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-and-revolutionary-magic-in-the-orinoco-delta-9781350115767/ Interview by Rusty Barrett Rusty Barrett: First, for those unfamiliar with Venezuela, coul…
#Book Symposium: Landscapes of Power
In Landscapes of Power, Dana Powell maps a failure: the proposed Desert Rock power plant which never came into being beyond paper thin promises made via PowerPoint presentations.…
The Pandemic: Indigenous Perspectives on Survival, Adaptation, Rebuilding, and Preparedness
Statement released by Chief Ricardo Bharath Hernandez, Santa Rosa First Peoples Community, Arima, Trinidad & Tobago, June 16, 2020. As Amerindians/Indigenous Peoples in the Caribbean, we are hist…
Blocking the Pandemic: Regional Boundary Controls in Indonesia’s Far East (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Jacob Nerenberg Indonesia, whose population of 267 million inhabits a vast archipelago, has not been spared the challenge of the SARS-CoV-2…
„The invisible threats and the unhealthy world“ – What might the Mbya (Brazil) teach us about Corona?(#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Maria Paula Prates The first day I realised I was really afraid of being infected and also of the proximity of the…
Inescapable Temporalities: Chinook Salmon and the Non-Sovereignty of Co-Management in Southwest Alaska
By William Voinot-Baron, University of Wisconsin at Madison § For several weeks after midsummer arrives along the lower Kuskokwim River, even as the days begin to shorten, the…
Chris Ball on his book, Exchanging Words
https://unmpress.com/books/exchanging-words/9780826358530 Meghanne Barker: This book moves, part by part, from within the park to outside of it, until we end up in France. How did you decide to…
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 to a more secluded corner behind…
The Magnificent Indians: Sebastião Salgado’s studio in the Amazon forest
The Javari Valley has always attracted cameras and documentarists. The beauty of the Indians living in this high forest is irresistible. As I learned from Txema Matis, such…
Daniel Fisher on his book, The Voice and Its Doubles
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-voice-and-its-doubles Interview by Georgia Ennis Georgia Ennis: Throughout your book, you follow both the imaginations and instantiations of an Aboriginal voice in radi…
Воспоминания коренных жителей Севера о национальных и вспомогательных школах-интернатах – Testimonies about boarding schools among indigenous people in Russia’s North
Текст на русском языке см. ниже In this contribution, which will be mainly in Russian, I want to give the floor to the numerous voices about boarding schools…
Contamination of the Social Fabric: Sápara Leaders’ Resistance to Oil Companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon and the Narrow Vision of Environmental Impact Studies
By Lindsay Ofrias, Princeton University § In the shadow of the world’s worst case of oil contamination, the Sápara, a small group of indigenous people, are desperately protecting their…
Food Insecurity and Chronic Malnutrition in Rural Indigenous Guatemala
With the title, “Latinx Foodways in North America,” we aim to put the series in a more international perspective, inclusive of the United States, Caribbean, Mexico, Central America,…
Yellow Water: Rupture and Return One Year after the Gold King Mine Spill
Figure 1. A view of Animas Creek taken one year after the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill that discharged three million gallons of acid mine water toward…
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum
The action by Decolonize this Place on the steps of the AMNH included veiling the statue of Teddy Roosevelt. Photo courtesy Hrag Vartanian. https://hyperallergic.com/329225/decolonizethisplace-d…
Commentary: The Environmental Anthropology of Settler Colonialism, Part II
By Clint Carroll, University of Colorado Boulder § Settler colonial studies offers a set of analytical tools that can help make sense of environmental practices and politics—and their resulting effect…
Wildlife Conservation and Settler Colonialism in the North American West
Paul Berne Burow, Yale University § On May 3, 1933, a common brown buffalo cow gave birth to a snow-white bison calf on the National Bison Range near Moiese,…
In memory of a shaman: Tëpi Pajé
Tëpi Pajé (Photo: Barbara Arisi) By Barbara Arisi Tëpi Pajé was a powerful shaman of the Matis people. He was called xó’xókit, a word that names the one…
Reclaiming Nature? Indigenous Homeland and Oil Sands Territory
Tara Joly, University of Aberdeen § Settler colonial relations construct the Athabasca region as extractive oil sands territory, yet the region remains homeland for Indigenous peoples, including Méti…
Making Homeland (Haciendo Patria): Agrarian Change, Nationhood and Inter-Ethnic Relations at the Frontier of Colonial Expansion in Chile
By Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile § As are many other valleys in the southern Andean region of Chile, Coilaco was the setting of some of the last…