This year’s American Anthropological Association meeting is likely to be one of the weirder ones in recent memory.
Category: conference paper
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
Sedimentation
On Tuesday afternoon at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, I had the opportunity to participate as discussant on a panel … More
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
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
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
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
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
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