New Issue of HAU with Essays on “How Forests Think”

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory has just released a new issue. It includes a collection of essays by Marisol de … More

The Anthropocene: A View from the Humanities

This year, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at University of California-Santa Barbara is hosting a seminar series on the Anthropocene. Among … More

Ethnobiology and the Anthropocene: A View from Amazonia

In this presentation from the 2014 Society of Ethnobiology Annual Conference, I draw from my ethnobiological research 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

Historical Human Impact on Tree Species Composition in Central Amazonia

This research was just recently published in PLoS One by colleagues at the National Institute of Amazonian Research in Brazil. … More