I just returned from visiting the University of Cincinnati where I gave a talk at the Taft Research Center. Many…
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…
Cultures of Energy Podcast
Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer invited me on to the Cultures of Energy podcast to discuss my recent book Amazonia…
Religion, Race, and Weedy Plants
Yesterday I published a new research article titled “How Religion, Race, and the Weedy Agency of Plants Shape Rural Amazonian…
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…
Confederates in the Amazon
SAPIENS just published a short excerpt from my book Amazonia in the Anthropocene that looks at the role American Confederate…
Culture and Agriculture at #AAA2016
If you’ll be attending the American Anthropological Association meeting in Minneapolis next month, here you can find all of the…
The Challenges of the Anthropocene: A Conversation
Yesterday I spoke with Matthew DeMello about my recent article The Irony of the Anthropocene. We discussed some of the challenges posed…
Magico-Medicinal Plants of Rural Amazonia: Supplementary Table
My article “How Religion, Race, and the Weedy Agency of Plants Shapes Rural Amazonia Home Gardens” will be published in…
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…