Tag: Amazonia
The Anthropocene: A View from the Humanities
This year, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at University of California-Santa Barbara is hosting a seminar series on the Anthropocene. Among … More
Ethnobiology and the Anthropocene: A View from Amazonia
In this presentation from the 2014 Society of Ethnobiology Annual Conference, I draw from my ethnobiological research in rural Amazonia … More
‘Saving the Amazon’: Conservation, International Covetousness, and the Politics of Research
My latest article has just been published in Anthropology Today. If you’d like a copy, feel free to email me. Here’s … More
American Family Finds Its Photo on a Billboard in the Brazilian Amazon
This recent piece from the New York Times describes the curious story of an American family that finds its photo … More
The Big Snake: An Amazonian Vision of Human-Environmental Relations
For the 2013 American Anthropological Association Meeting, I’ll be presenting on the panel Visions of the Amazon: Combining Materialist and … More
2013 Ethnobiology Conference Podcasts
Podcasts of presentations from the 2013 Conference for the Society of Ethnobiology are now available online. You can find my … More
Social Networks and Manioc Diversity – New Publication in Current Anthropology
My latest research article (co-authored with Chris McCarty and Charles Clement) is to be published in the December 2013 issue … More
Price of Tomatoes Skyrockets in Amazonas, Climate Change Implicated
In Brazilian Amazonia, the price of manioc flour has risen significantly in the past year. Mostly recently, the prices of … More
Managing Uncertainty in Rural Amazonia: Climate Change, Crop Diversity, and Social Networks
If you’re at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco next week (Nov. 14-18), I’ll be giving my … More
Nicholas C. Kawa 