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Nicholas C. Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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Tag: Amazonia

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 … More

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 … More

Amazonia, essay, public anthropology

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 … More

Amazonia, anthropocene, book review

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, … More

Amazonia, anthropocene, book, ethnography, interview

Cobra Grande

A short essay of mine was just published in Engagement, the blog of the Anthropology and Environment Society. The piece examines the … More

Amazonia, cobra grande, ethnography

“Amazonia in the Anthropocene” Coming out in May

My first book Amazonia in the Anthropocene: People, Soils, Plants, Forests will be published this May with the University of … More

Amazonia, anthropocene, book

Social and Environmental Factors Shaping Agrobiodiversity Management in Rural Amazonia

My latest research article was just published online with the journal Human Ecology. Here is the abstract: Smallholder farmers play … More

agrobiodiversity, Amazonia, Amazonian Dark Earth, biodiversity conservation

Forests and Favelas

In a few weeks, I’ll be attending the meeting of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology in Oaxaca, … More

Amazonia, anthropology, Brazil, favelas, forests

Race, Religion, and Magico-Medicinal Plant Use in Rural Amazonia

This Friday I’ll be giving a talk at the American Anthropological Association meeting in a session titled Humans, Plants, and … More

#AAA, agrobiodiversity, Amazonia

UC-Santa Barbara IHC talk: Problems with the Anthropocene

Amazonia, anthropocene, UCSB

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