“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.
Frank Zelko dives into the history of teeth and shows that today’s teeth are the product of centuries of biocultural evolution.
One of our editors, Brady Fauth, sits down with anthropologist Francesca Mezzenzana to discuss her developing research into children’s human–nonhuman relationships across cultures.
This essay brings previously underexplored paths of political ecology, environmental history, and even biosemiotics and plant neurophysiology in Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees (1957) to light.
Joseph Adeniran Adedeji shows how the cultural meaning of Yoruba heritage sites signify hope for a harmonious coexistence between society and the nonhuman world.
The surprising career of the advertising slogan “everybody talks about the weather” is a story about political transformation.
The Azorean archipelago is a lesson not only in geography and geology but also in cooking stew.
Daniel Dumas interviews Elspeth Oppermann on handling heat in a changing climate, with a focus on how heat affects work environments.
Jenny Price argues the efficacy of alt-institution public art projects for environmental humanities practitioners and uses examples from her own practice and beyond.
An east-coast beachfront neighborhood faces a difficult decision about how to respond to storms and rising seas.