Helicopter Images: Mediating Injustice in Environmental Film
Marian Ahn Thorpe, Princeton University § The fictional movie Even the Rain (Bollaín 2010) tells the story of a Spanish-Mexican team as …
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 …
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. …
Scandal, Blame, and the Politics of Contamination in Peru’s Quinoa Bust
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2019 Roy A. Rappaport …
Becoming Inia and Dolphin
The Amazon River Basin is one of the richest river systems in the world, covering more than 7-million square kilometers. This system …
Remaking (Il)licit Landscapes: Layered Histories and Speculative Time in Peru’s War on Drugs
By Allison Kendra, Stanford University § Its leaves burst forth slowly from thin, shrubby branches. Every three months they mature, every three …
Exhibitions Week: Echoes of the Rainforest: The Visual Arts of the Shipibo Indians
The MMWC has a huge amount of exhibition-related news. This week I devote a series of posts to highlighting some of these …
Bodies of Flesh and Ore: Geosocial Formation of Miners and Metal in Highland Bolivia
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2018 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. …
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 …
Elusive Caimans and the Anthropologist as Devil
books and arts Lucas Bessire. 2014. Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 296 …
Mate: The Drink Beyond a Drink w/ Guilherme Heiden
Coca and Mate by Guilherme Heiden and Adam Gamwell Mate (pronounced mah-tay), or more commonly known as yerba mate for English speakers, …
The Nazca Culture
The south coast of Peru is home to one of the more famous ancient South American archaeological cultures, the Nazca/Nasca. The …