The first Mariana crow I encountered in the flesh was a young bird named Diseja. Perched
up close to the mesh siding of her small aviary, she called out again and again as she saw …

The sustainability concept seeks to balance how present and future generations of humans
meet their needs. But because nature is viewed only as a resource, sustainability fails to …

Recent calls for 'other-than-human'ethnographies draw attention to dimensions of life that
have allegedly been overlooked or marginalised in anthropological writings. We take such …

The classic domestication scenario for grains and fruits has been portrayed as the lucky
fixation of major-effect “domestication genes.” Characterization of these genes plus recent …

This paper presents some features of apple production in Norway, the northernmost apple-
growing country in the world. Acceptable growing conditions prevail along the fjords in …

In his book A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans, originally published in1934,
Jakob von Uexküll argued that all living beings–no matter how simple or complex–had to be …

This article gives an account of the social construction of phytopathological knowledge in the
case of olive quick decline syndrome (OQDS) in Apulia, Italy. Due to the economic, cultural …

Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

In Loss and Wonder at the World's End, Laura A. Ogden brings together animals, people,
and things—from beavers, stolen photographs, lichen, American explorers, and birdsong …

Near Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life. In the animal facility, fragile
piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive care …