“The one-cent stamps fly off our shelves…”
Ingenuities of everyday life…
Ecomyopia in the Anthropocene
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY VOL 33 NO 1, 2017 “… ecomyopia [we] define as the tendency to not recognize, to ignore, or fail to act on new information that contradicts political arrangements, social norms, or world views…”
Free for All: Foods, Landscapes, and Lives in the Paraguayan Chaco
Ethnobiology Letters 2016 This short memoir essay revisits my education in foodscapes with the Ayoreo community of Jesudi in the Paraguayan Chaco through stories and experiences of food procurement and distribution. From landscapes in which food was free for all (non-monetized) to contemporary encroachments and land-grabbing in the Chaco for globally-connected markets, the transformations have …
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How Can We Teach Our Children if We Cannot Access the Forest?: Generational Change in Mapuche Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants in Andean Temperate Ecosystems of Chile
with Antonia Barreau et al. Journal of Ethnobiology 2016
Taking Stock of Ethnobiology
with Dana Lepofsky and Sara Tiffany in the Journal of Ethnobiology 31(2011):110-127 DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-31.1.110 “Given the ecological and humanitarian crises faced in the 21st century and the transformations in world economies and ethnobiological knowledge systems, the field’s formal societies, as places of interaction and means for collective path-making, have a special role insetting the course for future …
Ethnobiology for a Diverse World: Ethnobiology Emerging From a Time of Crisis
With Gary Nabhan and Dana Lepofsky 2011 Journal of Ethnobiology 31(2):172-175 DOI:10.2993/0278-0771-31.2.172 “Ethnobiologists, perhaps more than any other group of researchers, have the moral will, the perspectives, the know-how, and grassroots networks to be potential allies and resources for emerging coalitions of problem-solvers during such times of dramatic ecosystem and social change.”
The Semiotics of Powerful Places
Rock Art and Landscape Relations in the Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico 2011 Journal of Anthropological Research 67(3):387-420 “Situated in places rich in symbolism, relationship, affect, and embodied history, the semiotics of rock art are interpreted and re-invented by contemporary Rarámuri, non-Rarámuri locals, tourists, and anthropologists. Rock art provokes narratives of local history, past interactions with other peoples …
Environments of Learning
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Honorable Mentions In the Chaco
In the Chaco people send out messages for the dead on radio waves; do they get radio pa’i puku in heaven? In the Chaco owl throat calls full yellow moon month night, white shroud chrysalis and soft candle light. In the Chaco spring is yellow acacia sweet buzzing day and new life waiting for asôjná. …
Spheres of Relations, Lines of Interaction
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