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Recollecting the “prodotti vegetali” of the Natural History Museum, University of Florence
This article briefly retraces the history of a Florentine botanical museum as a reflection of changes in people-plant relations.
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Venomous Company: Snakes and Agribusiness in Honduras
This essay examines the history of venomous snake research conducted by the Boston-based United Fruit Company starting in the 1920s.
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Bonbibi: A Religion of the Forest in the Sundarbans
The cult of Bonbibi worship in the Sundarbans mangrove forests can inform conservation practices.
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Hydroelectric Power and Anishinaabe Diets: What Oral Testimony Suggests About Managing Food (In)Security on Reserve
This article explores the intersection of water management, manomin, and food insecurity for an Anishinaabe community in Northwestern Ontario.
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Flood Levels and Borderlines: Livestock Farming and Evictions Resistance at the !Garib/Orange River in Southern Africa
A farmer on the !Garib/Orange river in Namibia uses historical flood markers to challenge eviction in the post-apartheid landscape.
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Xunáan Kab Rhythms: Native Bees and Ecological Change in Yucatan, Mexico
This entry focuses on native bees and their role as narrators of regional social and ecological histories.
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Stars, Mules, and Interferometers in Early Transnational Astronomy in 1960s Chile
This essay examines the multiple factors intertwined in the development of transnational astronomy in Chile in the 1960s.
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The Remarkable Ray of Dublin’s Ringsend
On the common stingray and its longstanding place in the diet, health, and lives of people in Ringsend, Ireland.
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Cleansing the Sacred Habitat in the Time of Coronavirus: Buddhist Sang Rituals in Sikkim in Response to the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic
The Riwo Sangchö is a Buddhist purification ritual that has become popular in response to the Coronavirus in Sikkim, India.
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Rat Tech: Transforming Rodents into Technology in Tanzania
In Tanzania, those who consider rats technology envision nature as being transformed through social practices that rework environmental histories.