The Third U.S. National Climate Assessment was released by the White House today. It provides an overview of the effects … More
Author: nckawa
I'm a cultural and environmental anthropologist with interests in biodiversity management and smallholder agriculture in rural Amazonia. I've conducted research on agrobiodiversity management, anthropogenic soils, and community-based conservation. Currently, I'm also interested in the ways that farmers rely upon social networks, local ecological knowledge, and agrobiodiversity management to contend with the uncertainties of global climate change.
The Hub Community Garden in Muncie
Here’s a short video produced by one of my students in which I discuss the vision behind the Hub Community … More
April Edition of Anthropology News Focuses on Climate Change
This month’s edition of Anthropology News focuses on climate change. I contributed a short piece titled “Managing Uncertainty in Rural Amazonia: … More
Xavante Book Review
My review of the recent book by James Welch et al. Na Primeira Margem do Rio:Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante … More
‘Saving the Amazon’: Conservation, International Covetousness, and the Politics of Research
My latest article has just been published in Anthropology Today. If you’d like a copy, feel free to email me. Here’s … More
American Family Finds Its Photo on a Billboard in the Brazilian Amazon
This recent piece from the New York Times describes the curious story of an American family that finds its photo … More
The Big Snake: An Amazonian Vision of Human-Environmental Relations
For the 2013 American Anthropological Association Meeting, I’ll be presenting on the panel Visions of the Amazon: Combining Materialist and … More
2013 Ethnobiology Conference Podcasts
Podcasts of presentations from the 2013 Conference for the Society of Ethnobiology are now available online. You can find my … More
Social Networks and Manioc Diversity – New Publication in Current Anthropology
My latest research article (co-authored with Chris McCarty and Charles Clement) is to be published in the December 2013 issue … More
Anthropology Syllabi / Syllabuses
Regardless of your preference for the plural of “syllabus” (“syllabi” or “syllabuses”), I’ve put some of mine up here under … More
Nicholas C. Kawa 