anthropology

A brief history of the universe from the big bang to the Anthropocene, as related by someone older and wiser than all of it. A fable for clever beasts. A bedtime story for a species.

Experience Australian environmental activist John Seed’s powerful “Ecological Healing” lecture. Introduced by University of Florida professors Shaya Isenberg & Bron Taylor, Seed, a deep ecology pioneer, calls for reconnecting with our planet, challenging the anthropocentric worldview fueling environmental destruction.

Full open-access volume Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for the Environmental Humanities (2026), edited by Emily Brownell.

Full open-access volume Rural Transitions in Mongolia and Central Asia: Pastoralism, Wellbeing and Economic Relations (2026), edited by Ariell Ahearn, Gantulga Munkherdene, and Takahiro Ozaki.

Full text of Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods, edited by Andrea Petitt, Anke Tonnaer, Véronique Servais,
Catrien Notermans, and Natasha Fijn.

This manuscript adopts an interspecies perspective on the One Health laboratory and argues that scientific care for sampled bats may cement hierarchies, with consequences for samplers and animals.

In this book, scholars and scientists from twelve disciplines write about the Anthropocene.

In this Springs article, environmental historian Shen Hou considers the shore lives of both Qingdao and Los Angeles.

Roth, Emmanuelle. “The ‘Truth about Ebola’: Insecure Epistemologies in Post-Outbreak Forest Guinea.” PhD diss., Cambridge University, 2022. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.86766

Full text of Peter Niedersteiner’s dissertation, “Zwischen Staunen und Zweifeln.”