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“In the Teeth of History: Dental Decay in the Longue Durée”
Frank Zelko dives into the history of teeth and shows that today’s teeth are the product of centuries of biocultural evolution.
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“Seeing with a Forager’s Eye: A Conversation with Martin Saxer”
Martin Saxer introduces his project “Foraging at the Edge of Capitalism” detailing how his team works and what foraging means to them.
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“Beavering”
In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.
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“The Poetics of Dunes”
Joana Freitas reveals the reasons, troubles, and charm of writing about sand and how poetry can be more effective than prose to describe dunes.
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A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness
Chapters from Timothy J. Killeen’s book A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness.
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Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers
Excerpt from Wild Mushrooming: A Guide for Foragers by Alison Pouliot and Tom May.
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Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Excerpt from Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms: Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by Alison Pouliot.
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The Colonial Roots of the Kangaroo Controversy
This article situates contemporary debates over kangaroo-population management within Australia’s violent history of settler-colonial occupation and attendant environmental transformations.
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"Seed Care in the Palm Oil Sector"
Sophie Chao delves into an unexplored dimension of the agribusiness nexus—the affective attachments of corporate actors to oil palm seeds. Drawing from fieldwork in an oil palm concession in Riau, Sumatra, she highlights the conflicting nature of caring for palm oil seeds.
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“Plantation”
Sophie Chao on “Plantation” in the living lexicon of the journal Environmental Humanities.