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Vol. 38 No. 4 (2023) | Cultural Anthropology Melding discourses on technicity, decolonial epistemology, and anthropologies of energy, Katie Ulrich analyzes the traffic between sugarcane biological growth, industry growth, and economic growth in the context of the crop’s history of colonial expansion and environmental destruction.

palaeontology, scientific study of life of the geologic past that involves the analysis of plant and animal fossils, including those of microscopic size, preserved in rocks. It is concerned with all aspects of the biology of ancient life forms: their shape and structure, evolutionary patterns, taxonomic relationships with each other and with modern living species, geographic distribution, and interrelationships with the environment. ( Source : Britannica.com)

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Communist Theory ♣️

Postmortem Feminism Thought 🌸

Life trapped in a dome feeling too real right now, hope y'all are staying safe xx
(but tbf Lisa would 100% have been an anthropologist) 😂

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Anthropology in public health emergencies: what is anthropology good for? Recent outbreaks of Ebola virus disease (2013–2016) and Zika virus (2015–2016) bring renewed recognition of the need to understand social pathways of disease transmission and barriers to care. Social scientists, anthropologists in particular, ...

In anthropology, a new generation of researchers have started to explore how chemistry has changed not only the physical environment, but the experience of being human itself. The emerging subfield of chemo-ethnography was proposed by American anthropologists and environmental researchers Eben Kirksey and Nicholas Shapiro in 2017. Ethnography is the observational research method used by anthropologists to study human culture; chemo-ethnography studies how chemistry impacts this culture.

‘Chemo-ethnography is simply anthropology recognising that we can’t understand what it means to be human in the 21st century without thinking about modern chemistry,’ says Shapiro, who works at the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics in California, US. ‘Chemistry suffuses so many different aspects of our social fabric, from what flavours and smells are deemed valuable and alluring, to the levels of persistent chemicals in our bodies.’

Interest has developed hot on the heels of the Anthropocene concept – the idea that our current era is one in which human activity is the dominant influence on Earth, with synthetic chemistry being a huge part of the transformations that human activity has caused. This, and the growing awareness of the climate crisis, has precipitated new concerns around chemistry and chemicals.

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