Ontem eu tive o grande prazer de dar uma palestra na Universidade Federal do Amazonas. Quero agradecer a Tiago Jacaúna e…
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…
El Tunchi
While living in the Peruvian Amazon, I heard several stories about “el tunchi” — a spirit of the dead that has…
Taft Research Center Talk
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…
