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Nick Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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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…

Amazonia, anthropocene, podcast, public anthropology

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…

agrobiodiversity, Amazonia, magico-medicinal plants, research article, species list

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…

Amazonia, essay, public anthropology

The Weekly Gleaning

Check out the Weekly Gleaning, which is the latest feature on the Culture and Agriculture website. It summarizes news from around…

American Anthropological Association, Culture and Agriculture, news, weekly gleaning

Review of “Amazonia in the Anthropocene” in TLS

Michael F. Brown reviewed my book in the Times Literary Supplement this July. Here’s a brief excerpt: “Growing awareness of…

Amazonia, anthropocene, book review

What Happens When We Flush?

I just completed revisions on an article titled “What Happens When We Flush?” that will appear in the September edition of…

Brazil, excrement, flush toilet, night soil, waste studies, water and sanitation

In the Streets of Iquitos

flowers, Iquitos, urban Amazonia

Q&A with UT Press

University of Texas Press just posted a short interview with me about my new book Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People,…

Amazonia, anthropocene, book, ethnography, interview

The Rainy Season in Pueblo Libre de Belén

Belén, Iquitos, Peru, Pueblo Libre, rainy season

Shit

I wrote a short essay titled “shit” that was just published on Cultural Anthropology’s website as part of their series Lexicon for an…

anthropocene, Cultural Anthropology, essay, lexicon, shit studies, waste

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