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Nicholas C. Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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#AAA2021: Anthropological Engagements with Optimism?

This year’s American Anthropological Association meeting is likely to be one of the weirder ones in recent memory.

academic anthropology, roundtable

Urban Amazonian Show & Tell at #AmAnth2018

At this year’s AAA meeting, I’ll be presenting a paper on a panel titled “The Cultural Work of Aesthetics: Brazilian … More

#AmAnth2018, Brazil, ethnography, everyday aesthetics, urban Amazonia

Sedimentation

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

#AmAnth17, agriculture, anthropocene, Sedimentation

Plant Semiotics Workshop

On Feb. 24th, I’ll be participating in a workshop at Rutgers University that centers on “the semotics of plant-human sociality.” Becky Schulthies … More

anthropology, human-plant relations, Rutgers, semiotics, workshop

The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology

This morning I presented a paper at the AAA meeting in Minneapolis as part of a panel I co-organized with … More

academia, anthropology, hiring networks, social network analysis

Waste, Residuals, and Ruins: A Political Ecology of Excess

This weekend I’ll be presenting at the Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE) Conference in Lexington, KY. Shreyas Sreenath (Emory U.) … More

DOPE2016, political ecology, waste

Forests and Favelas

In a few weeks, I’ll be attending the meeting of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology in Oaxaca, … More

Amazonia, anthropology, Brazil, favelas, forests

Race, Religion, and Magico-Medicinal Plant Use in Rural Amazonia

This Friday I’ll be giving a talk at the American Anthropological Association meeting in a session titled Humans, Plants, and … More

#AAA, agrobiodiversity, Amazonia

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

Amazonia, anthropocene

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

Amazonia, anthropocene, ethnobiology

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