This year’s American Anthropological Association meeting is likely to be one of the weirder ones in recent memory.
Category: essay
Memoria y Salud Andino-Amazónica
En julio de 2020, participé en un evento organizado por el grupo estudiantil Abya Yala (de Ohio State) y el Foro Permanente de Estudios, Investigación y Saberes Transdisciplinarios Ancestrales (en Cochabamba, Bolivia).
Amazonia and the Ontological Turn: A Dialogue
In July 2017, I visited Manaus to work on a new collaboration with researchers in the Sociology Department at the … More
How Academic Hierarchy Shapes the Distribution of Precarity
Yesterday, Cultural Anthropology updated its recent forum on academic precarity with several additional essays, including one that I wrote about the … More
Sedimentation
On Tuesday afternoon at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, I had the opportunity to participate as discussant on a panel … 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
The Other Side of Our Food System
I just published a short blog post for Ohio State’s Initiative for Food and Agricultural Transformation (InFACT), which discusses my new research … More
El Tunchi
While living in the Peruvian Amazon, I heard several stories about “el tunchi” — a spirit of the dead that has … More
Confederates in the Amazon
SAPIENS just published a short excerpt from my book Amazonia in the Anthropocene that looks at the role American Confederate … More
The Irony of the Anthropocene
I just published a short essay with The Conversation that outlines some of the inherent contradictions and ironies in the … More
Nicholas C. Kawa 