The Practice of Not Knowing
This is a comic that explores the affective experience of sharing a built environment and material cultures, making and re-making more-than-human kinship, and dealing with anticipatory grief with…
Tag: Multispecies Ethnography
Gazing into the Eyes of Elephants: Unsettling Recognition in Multispecies Relations
“Do the elephants recognize you?” I am asked some version of this question by most people who find out my work has involved multiyear relations with elephants in…
CFP AAA/CASCA: Multispecies Labor in Emerging Agricultural Practices
Paolina Lu Call for participation in a panel for AAA/CASCA 2023: Multispecies Labor in Emerging Agricultural Practices. In recent years, ethnographers have looked to agricultural settings, i…
Dissertation Update: “On Anthropomorphism”
I’ve sent off the first section of my dissertation to my advisor. This section is going in the introduction around the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study.Next…
Grafting with Care: Encountering Human-Plant Relations Through Experiments with Roses
Introduction When seen through the experiences and histories of experimentation and care, plants such as roses can bring new insights into the affective and material entanglements of more-than-human…
A Concert in the Rainforest: Sound in Multispecies Ethnography
A Concert in Analamazaotra The four minute clip above was one of many that I recorded during preliminary fieldwork this past summer in the Eastern rainforest corridor of…
Fieldwork Diary July 8-9, 2021
I am conducting research across Texas on Human and javelina relations. I am interested in how humans and other animals negotiate space at sites of encounter. During this…
The Fall and Rise and Lindbergh: A Javelina Story
I have been working with javelinas in Texas for nearly a year. My first encounter with them occurred at Big Bend National Park and I have since visited…
Shadows, Ambiguity, and More-Than-Human Politics
My first glimpse of a peccary/javelina at one of my fieldsites. I am currently working on a manuscript exploring the ways that both literal and metaphorical shadows produce…
Adventures with Peccaries pt. 3
Here is some javelina video during fieldwork on October 30, 2020.
A Tale of Two Snakes
Upon entering the warmest room in our house, we are greeted with the subtle smell of earth. In this room is a 36″X18″X12″ bioactive habitat with two small…
Zombie Knowledge: Toward a Deeper Conversation between Black Studies and Multispecies Anthropology
Monsters, the nightmarish figures we conjure in the dark, reflect our own culturally and politically specific anxieties. They are a dark mirror: a terrifying rendering of a social…
Ep #59 The Palm Oil Frontier: Sophie Chao & Walking the forest with the Marind People
The Familiar Strange · Ep #59 The Palm Oil Frontier: Sophie Chao & Walking the forest with the Marind People “Because for a few hours, maybe sometimes a…
Texas Herping: May 2 & 4, 2020
Dr. Sarah Pollock and I braved the scorching heat (>95F) to look for snakes around little water around Culebra Creek Park. Special Guests: Lots of ribbons snakes and…
The Figueroa Flock
In Queens, a pigeon is one of the multispecies family. Emily Leshner and Ben Boteler Negrito lives the life of a typical New Yorker; he wakes, eats, goes…
A Feminist Analysis of Orthodox Dogspotting
Dogspotting, arguably, was a tenuous thematic precursor to real-world crossover Pokémon Go. Instead of catching cutesy pocket monsters, group members went about spotting (and appreciating) as many can…
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene [review]
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Cthulhu, Great Old One and Special Collections Librarian at Brown University. When the puny mortals at Savage Minds invited me to review the…
“Dinna you get attached tae yon lamb” Fieldwork with Yoda.
Two pairs of eyes looked at me from across the table waiting for my response. A third pair joined them. The four day old lamb cradled in my…