This article defines multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents
within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy, political ecology, and animal …

Humans are literal and figurative kin to other primates, with whom many of us coexist in
diverse social, ecological, symbolic, conflictual, and even hopeful contexts. Anthropogenic …

What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this
central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence …

Elephants rarely breed in captivity and are not considered domesticated, yet they interact
with people regularly and adapt to various environments. Too social and sagacious to be …

In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating
pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios …

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th
century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and …

Ethnographies of encounter are one response to calls to decolonize anthropology. These
ethnographies explore how culture making occurs through unequal relationships involving …

The recent renaissance within animal geography has tended to focus on the spatial
orderings of animals by humans, rather than on the lived geographies and experiences of …

Recent work in animal cognition has focused on how animals respond to new or changing
environments. Although many species are currently in decline, other species are thriving in …

Through a discussion of urban foraging in Seattle, Washington, USA, we examine how
people's plant and mushroom harvesting practices in cities are linked to relationships with …