Publications

2023 Singh, P., Kawa, N.C., and Sprunger, C. “More Questions than Answers”: Ohio Farmers’ Perceptions of Novel Soil Health Data and Their Utility for On-Farm Management. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. doi:10.1080/21683565.2023.2270928

2023 Kawa, N.C. Horizon Work by Adriana Petryna (Book Review). American Ethnologist https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13124

2022 Kawa, N.C. Who Gets to Be an Author? Anthropology of Work Review 43(2):72-79.

2022 Kawa, N.C. Human Waste…and Much More (commentary). Anthropology News. 7 Dec.

2022 Kawa, N.C. Ten Ways that Human Waste Isn’t Waste at All. Anthropology News 63(3): 8-10.

2022 Moritz, M., and Kawa, N.C. The World Needs Wicked Scientists. American Scientist 110(4): 212.

2021 Kawa, N.C. Making Sense of Sewage Sludge as a Renewable Resource in the Urban US. Antropologia Portuguesa 38: 43-62.

2021  Kawa, N.C. The Anthropocene. Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. John L. Jackson, Jr., ed. New York: Oxford University Press.

2021  Kawa, N.C., Arceño, M.A., Goeckner, R., Hunter, C., Rhue, S.J., Scaggs, S.A., Biwer, M.E., Downey, S.S., Field, J.S., Gremillion, K., McCorriston, J., Willow, A., Newton, E., and Moritz, M. Training Wicked Scientists for a World of Wicked Problems. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8: Article Number 189.

2021  Kawa, N.C. A “Win-Win” for Soil Conservation? How Indiana Row-Crop Farmers Perceive the Benefits (and Trade-offs) of No-Till Agriculture. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 43(1): 25-35. DOI:10.1111/cuag.12264

2021  Leitão-Barboza, M.S., Kawa, N.C., Junqueira, A.B., and Oyuela-Cayedo, A. Open Air Laboratories: Amazonian Home Gardens as Sites of Experimentation, Collaboration, and Negotiation across Time. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 62. DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101302

2021  Rissing, A., and Kawa, N.C. Porkopolis: A Conversation. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 43(1): 71-73. DOI:10.1111/cuag.12262

2021  Hoelle, J.A., and Kawa, N.C. Placing the Anthropos in the Anthropocene. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111(3): 655-662. DOI:10.1080/24694452.2020.1842171

2020  Kawa, N.C. Reflexiones sobre la salud ambiental y la salud humana en el Antropoceno. Diálogos Transdisciplinarios Ancestrales 2: 9-15

2020  Kawa, N.C. Plants that Keep the Bad Vibes Away: Boundary Maintenance and Phyto-Communicability in Urban Amazonia. Ethnos: 1-17. DOI:10.1080/00141844.2020.1765830

2020  Kawa, N.C. A Mend to the Metabolic Rift? The Promises (and Potential Pitfalls) of Biosolids Application on American Soils. In Thinking with Soils; Juan F. Salazar, Céline Granjou, Anna Krzywoszynska, Matthew Kearns, Manuel Tironi, eds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

2020  Kawa, N.C. “Shit.” In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian, eds. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books.

2019  Kawa, N.C., K. Goldberg, J. Kingsbury, M. Scherer, F. Lipschitz, and F. Bonkiye. Night Soil: Origins, Discontinuities, and Possibilities for Bridging the Metabolic Rift. Ethnobiology Letters 10(1): 40-49. DOI:10.14237/ebl.10.1.2019.1351

2019  Amazonas, I.T., N.C. Kawa, V. Zanetti, I. Linke, and P. Sinisgalli. Using Rich Pictures to Model the ‘Good Life’ in Indigenous Communities of the Tumucumaque Complex in Brazilian Amazonia. Human Ecology 47(3): 341-354. DOI:10.1007/s10745-019-0076-5

2019  Kawa, N.C. Amazônia Urbana. Amazônia Latitude. 2 May.

2019  Kawa, N.C. Pflanzenmagie. Über die Macht macher Pflanzen. In Von Pflanzen und Meschen; Kathrin Meyer and Judith Elisabeth Weiss, eds. Gottingen, Germany: Wallstein Verlag.

2019 Caporrino, B., N.C. Kawa, and T. Zille. A virada ontológica e a Amazônia: um dialógo. Amazônia Latitude. 26 March.

2019  Crews, D.E., N.C. Kawa, J.H. Cohen, G.L. Ulmer, and A.N. Edes. Climate Change, Uncertainty, and Allostatic Load. Annals of Human Biology 46(1): 1-46.
DOI:10.1080/03014460.2019.1584243

2019  Kawa, N.C., J.A. Clavijo Michelangeli, J.L. Clark, D. Ginsburg, and C. McCarty. The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology and Its Inequalities. American Anthropologist 121(1): 14-29.

2018  Kawa, N.C., G.L. Ulmer, and S.M. Silverstein. A Pretext for Plunder? Environmental Change and State-Led Redevelopment in the Peruvian Amazon. Anthropology Today 34(2): 14-17.

2018  Kawa, N.C. How Academic Hierarchy Shapes the Distribution of Precarity. Cultural Anthropology website21 March.

2017  Desi, R.D.T., N.C. Kawa, and S.M. Silverstein. Primer Viaje de Regreso a Casa. Amazônica: Revista de Antropologia 9(1): 524-536.

2017  Veteto, J., and N.C. Kawa. The Fermentological Turn: Multi-Yeasties Ethnography. Anthropology News website. September 22. doi:10.1111/AN.624

2017  Kawa, N.C. El tunchi en la casa de Sandra. Anthropology and Humanism. DOI: 10.1111/anhu.12148

2016  Kawa, N.C. How Religion, Race, and the Weedy Agency of Plants Shape Amazonian Home Gardens. Culture, Agriculture, Food, and Environment 38(2): 84-93.

2016 Kawa, N.C. American Confederates and the Origins of Archaeology in the Amazon Basin. SAPIENS. 4 Nov.

2016  Kawa, N.C. The Irony of the Anthropocene: People Dominate a Planet Beyond Our Control. The Conversation. 4 Oct.

2016  Kawa, N.C. What Happens When We Flush? Anthropology Now 8(2): 34-43.

2016  Kawa, N.C. Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests. Austin: University of Texas Press.

2016  Kawa, N.C. Shit. Theorizing the Contemporary, Cultural Anthropology website. 6 April.

2015  Kawa, N.C. Cobra Grande: An Amazonian Vision of Human-Environmental RelationsEngagement (blog of the Anthropology and Environment Society). 10 Nov.

2015  Kawa, N.C. Gas Leaks Can’t Be Tamed. The Atlantic. 18 Sept.

2015  Kawa, N.C., B. Painter, and C.E. Murray. Trail Trees: Living Artifacts (Vivifacts) of Eastern North America. Ethnobiology Letters 6(1): 183-188.

2015  Kawa, N.C., J.A. Clavijo Michelangeli, and C.R. Clement. Household Agrobiodiversity Management on Amazonian Dark Earths, Oxisols, and Floodplain Soils on the Lower Madeira River, Brazil. Human Ecology 43(2): 339-353.

2015  Oyuela-Caycedo, A., and N.C. Kawa. A Deep History of Tobacco in Lowland South America. In Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America; Andrew Russell and Elizabeth Rahman, eds. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

2014  Kawa, N.C. Managing Uncertainty in Rural Amazonia: Climate Change, Crop Diversity, and Social Networks. Anthropology News 55(4).

2014  Kawa, N.C. ‘Saving the Amazon’: Conservation, International Covetousness, and the Politics of Research. Anthropology Today 30(2): 21-24.

2014  Kawa, N.C. Review. Na Primeira Margem do Rio: Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé. Ethnobiology Letters 5: 40-41.

2013  Kawa, N.C., C. McCarty, and C.R. Clement. Manioc Varietal Diversity, Social Networks, and Distribution Constraints in Rural Amazonia. Current Anthropology 54(6): 764-770.

2012  Kawa, N.C. Magic Plants of Amazonia and Their Contribution to Agrobiodiversity. Human Organization 71(3): 225-233.

2012  Kawa, N.C. My Uncle Sandy. Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 9(2): Article 10.

2011  Kawa, N.C., D. Rodrigues, and C.R. Clement. Useful Species Richness, Proportion of Exotic Species, and Market Orientation on Amazonian Dark Earths and Oxisols. Economic Botany 65(2): 169-177.

2011  Fraser, J.A., A.B. Junqueira, N.C. Kawa, C.P. Moraes, and C.R. Clement. Crop Diversity on Anthropogenic Dark Earths in Central Amazonia. Human Ecology 39: 395-406.

2010  Kawa, N.C. Review. Tropical Root and Tuber Crops: Cassava, Sweet Potato, Yams and Aroids by Vincent Lebot. Economic Botany 64(1): 86-87.

2010  Junqueira, A.B., N.C. Kawa, J.A. Fraser, and C.R. Clement. Explorando a relação entre agrobiodiversidade e Terra Preta de Índio no médio Rio Madeira, Amazonas, Brasil. In Agrobiodiversidade no Brasil: Experiências e caminhos da pesquisa, Ming, L.C., Amorozo, M.C.M, and Kffuri, C.W., eds. Recife: NUPEEA.

2008  Kawa, N.C., and A. Oyuela-Caycedo. Amazonian Dark Earth: A Model of Sustainable Agriculture of the Past and Future? The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability 4(3): 9-16.

2008  Kawa, N.C. Playing by the Rules: The Politics of Research in the Brazilian Amazon. Anthropology News 49(6): 27-28.

2008  Kawa, N.C. Review. The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao by Allen M. Young. Culture and Agriculture 30(1&2): 63-64.

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