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Multispecies Walden Woods: Reevaluating Thoreau’s Religion
What happens when we look at Walden Woods of 1845 through a multispecies lens?
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A Paradise in Spring: An Ecological Account of Birds, Fishes, and Hunters in the Bāburnāma
Zahīr ud-Dīn Muhammad Bābur’s autobiography anticipates an ecological and multispecies way of understanding the environment, highlighting confluence rather than divergence between humans and nonhumans.
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Miyaoi Yasuo’s Perspective on Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Intersecting Humans and Animals, Shared Emotions and Ethics
Miyaoi Yasuo’s 1858 collection of tales, Kidan zasshi, challenges assumed human–animal boundaries, portraying shared ethics, reincarnation, and emotional connections by blending folklore and insights drawn from Edo-period experience.
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The Multispecies Intellectual History of the Kumano Kodō: Minakata Kumagusu, Slime Moulds, and Shrine Merger, 1906–1914
How a Japanese naturalist-polymath’s fascination with slime mold shaped a multispecies onto-epistemology—and a fierce campaign to protect shrines and sacred forests.
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“The pine’s fear made the bishop loved”: Thinking with Plants in Early Medieval Gaul
A hagiographer tells us that when Martin of Tours made the sign of a cross at a falling pine tree, the tree felt fear and was forced to change direction.
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Epistemological Negotiations of “the Fly” and Native Reserves in Colonial Zambia
In former Northern Rhodesia, the case of the Tsetse fly shows how knowledge has been co-created by humans and nonhumans.
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Asking Avian Questions: A Gyrfalcon Flew over Acre in April. Did it Feel Hot?
In April of 1191, a gyrfalcon from the far north flew over Acre. How did it get there? Did it feel hot? Can one use scant medieval sources to explore the experiences of a bird that lived at the end of the twelfth century?
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Anthro-Pollination: The Nineteenth-Century Production of Hybrid Ornamental Plants
In 1855, John Dominy created the first human-mediated hybrid orchid, paving the way for a unique symbiotic relationship between people and plants.