Ecologies of (Human) Waste

Check out my presentation for the 2020 Society for Cultural Anthropology virtual conference (#Distribute2020).

Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon

The new edited volume Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon includes over 60 entries and it’s free! Check out my contribution, simply titled “Shit.”

Curious about the use of human waste as an agricultural fertilizer? Read our latest article in the open access journal Ethnobiology Letters.

In July 2017, I visited Manaus to work on a new collaboration with researchers in the Sociology Department at the … More

Gordon Ulmer, Sydney Silverstein, and I just published a short article (with lots of photos!) in the latest edition of … More

On Tuesday afternoon at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, I had the opportunity to participate as discussant on a panel … More

A few weeks ago, Nivedita Kar interviewed me for the New Books in Anthropology Podcast. The episode just went online … More

Ontem eu tive o grande prazer de dar uma palestra na Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Quero agradecer a Tiago Jacaúna e … More

I just returned from visiting the University of Cincinnati where I gave a talk at the Taft Research Center. Many … More

Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer invited me on to the Cultures of Energy podcast to discuss my recent book Amazonia … More