On the Translucence of Water
By Alejandro Camargo, History and Social Sciences Department, Universidad del Norte, Colombia. “In the depths of the river, our hands are our eyes.” Catching bagre pintao (Pseudoplatystoma mag…
Tag: Multi-Species Anthropology
The Taste of Dwindling Flows, Chowdy fish in the Little Rann of Kutch in India
By Sita Mamidipudi, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Too Salty Najma and her family are Muslim fishworkers who live half a mile away from…
“Value of a Bee’s Life”: Extractivism’s Confrontation with Honeybees and Rural Beekeeping
By Çağla Ay, Anthropology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Are you aware of the value of bees for other species’ lives?” [Bir arının canlı yaşamı için ne kadar…
Repairing Environmental Politics: Multispecies Healing in Ecuador’s Oil Frontier
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
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…
Feral Atlas, a Review
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. 2021. Tsing, Anna L., Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. http://doi.org/10.21627/2020f…
Becoming without: Rearing and Releasing Transgenic Mosquitoes in Brazil
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2020 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Unsettling Soy: New Crops, Kin, and Conviviality on Mozambique’s Agribusiness Frontier
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2020 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the…
Reading the Assamese Folktale of Tejimola through an Inter-Species Lens: Understanding Life as a Verb instead of a Noun
By Paloma Bhattacharjee, National Museum Institute, New Delhi § The Capacity of Stories Burhi Aair Xadhu (loosely translated as Grandmother’s Tales) is a corpus of Assamese folktales coll…
Capturing Spiders: Golden Orb Weavers in Gainesville, Florida
By Lisa Jean Moore, SUNY Purchase § Spiders construct webs from the manipulation of spider silk proteins. Golden Orb Weaver Spiders (Kuntner et al. 2017), Trichonephila clavipes, are…
“Ain’t no future in your future”: Temporalities of Recovery and Resilience in Flint, Michigan
By Talia Gordon, University of Chicago § A future full of possibilities starts by drinking pure quality water – Nestlé “Pure Life®” Bottled Water In October 2018, Mayor…
Things That Are Not Alive, but Which May Be Alive in a Certain Way: An Interdisciplinary Essay on a Relational Theory of Life
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, AgroParisTech, INRA § This blog post is adapted from a paper given at “Anthropology Off Earth,” Collège de France and l’Observatoire de Paris, 4-5 June…
Grounds for Climate Change Mitigation in South Korea’s Tidal Mudflats
By Gebby Keny, Rice University § Blue Carbon Muddy boots on the shore of Wah Ohn beach. Photo by author. “The trick is to step with your right…
Decolonizing Extinction: An Interview with Juno Salazar Parreñas
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation By Juno Salazar Parreñas, The Ohio State University 288pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag spoke with…
The Time Travelers: Ambiguous Returns
By Elaine Gan, New York University § H. G. Wells’ 1895 novel introduced us to a modernist conception of a time machine, a humanmade device that renders time…
Call for Proposals: Animalia
AN invites you to go wild (or domestic) and submit proposals for our May/June “Animalia” issue. Whether your story is about bonobos or whales or bees, we want…
Who Is Afraid of CRISPR Art?
By Eben Kirksey, University of New South Wales § Originally published in Somatosphere A crowd-sourced Indiegogo funding campaign that raised over $45,000 for do-it-yourself gene editing kits in Decemb…
Plantworlds in West Papua
By Sophie Chao, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia § First published in Anthropology & Environment Society’s section of Anthropology News Rejecting human exceptionalism and exploring th…
Some Organs of My Primate Body
By Daniel Allen Solomon, De Anza College and Cabrillo College § The “monkey temple” on Jakhoo Hill in Shimla hosts a rowdy but well integrated bunch of rhesus…
Revisiting the Human in These Multispecies Landscapes
By Jared Margulies, University of Maryland Baltimore County, photographs by Indra Kumar, reproduced with permission § Indra shows me some photographs he’s taken recently of a variety of animals. I’m…
What the Seed Knows of the Soil
By Kay E. Lewis-Jones, University of Kent § Attending to the Seed On a December afternoon in the upper west side of Manhattan, a group of people sat in…