“Men’s cotton briefs can serve the needs of science when buried in a field for a few weeks. It’s a…
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…
The Hub Community Garden Featured in the Star Press
Today the Hub Community Garden was featured on the front page of the Muncie Star Press. The project, which grew out…
U.S. National Climate Assessment Released
The Third U.S. National Climate Assessment was released by the White House today. It provides an overview of the effects…
The Hub Community Garden in Muncie
Here’s a short video produced by one of my students in which I discuss the vision behind the Hub Community…
April Edition of Anthropology News Focuses on Climate Change
This month’s edition of Anthropology News focuses on climate change. I contributed a short piece titled “Managing Uncertainty in Rural Amazonia:…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
