Plants that Keep the Bad Vibes Away

New research article is out in a special issue on plant-human communication in the journal Ethnos.

Maya Milpa Workshop at OSU’s Waterman Farm

Last Friday and Saturday, we hosted a workshop that invited students, faculty, and staff from Ohio State (as well as … More

The Fermentological Turn

What does the Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association have brewing up for this year’s meeting? Take … More

Religion, Race, and Weedy Plants

Yesterday I published a new research article titled “How Religion, Race, and the Weedy Agency of Plants Shape Rural Amazonian … More

Magico-Medicinal Plants of Rural Amazonia: Supplementary Table

My article “How Religion, Race, and the Weedy Agency of Plants Shapes Rural Amazonia Home Gardens” will be published in … More

Social and Environmental Factors Shaping Agrobiodiversity Management in Rural Amazonia

My latest research article was just published online with the journal Human Ecology. Here is the abstract: Smallholder farmers play … 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

Managing Uncertainty in Rural Amazonia: Climate Change, Crop Diversity, and Social Networks

If you’re at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco next week (Nov. 14-18), I’ll be giving my … More

AAA Panel – Climate Change, Agriculture, and Agrobiodiversity

Jim Veteto (U. North Texas) and I have co-organized a sponsored panel for this year’s AAA meeting in San Francisco … More

Article on “Magic” Plants Published in Fall 2012 Issue of Human Organization

My most recent research article on the contribution of “magic” plants to Amazonian agrobiodiversity has just been published in the … More