THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY

• Published in: Cultural anthropology Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 545 - 576
• Main Authors: KIRKSEY, S. EBEN, HELMREICH, STEFAN
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.11.2010; Wiley Subscription Services; American Anthropological Association
• Subjects: 21st century; animal studies; Animals; Anthropologists; bioart; Biological Sciences; Biology; Cultural anthropology; Cultural maintenance; Cultural studies; Culture; Ecology; Environmental studies; Ethnobiology; Ethnography; Flowers & plants; Humans; Intervention; Linguistic anthropology; multispecies ethnography; Nature; nature/culture; Physical anthropology; Political anthropology; Science and technology; Sociology of Science; Species; Subjectivity; Twenty First Century; Zoology

Anthropologists have been committed, at least since Franz Boas, to investigating relationships between nature and culture. At the dawn of the 21st century, this enduring interest was inflected with some new twists. An emergent cohort of "multispecies ethnographers" began to place a fresh e...