Coming to Our Senses
In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins explore the subject of sensory ethnography – a focus …
Inorganic life and ayahuasca plant spirits
As icons of the difference between nature and culture, there is arguably nothing more opposite than plant life and computers. Such is common …
Physicists, alchemists, and ayahuasca shamans: A study of grammar and the body
Are there any common denominators that may underlie the practices of leading physicists and scientists, Renaissance alchemists, and indigenous Amazonian ayahuasca healers? There are obviously …
Ethnographic writing, poetics, and sensory sensemaking
“There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all” ~ Oscar …