The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Ethnographic Studies.

In this essay, I examine such ecologies while undertaking an ethnoprimatological project in Bali, Indonesia. This multispecies ethnography of humans and macaques demonstrates that human perceptions and land use intertwine with macaque social behavior and pathogen physiologies to affect local ecologies and economies for both species.

MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY. Such work also illustrates how concerns in cultural anthropology overlap with concerns in different but companion communities and intellectual niches. Atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer coined the term Anthropocene to describe a new epoch in Earth’s history.

Multispecies ethnography implicitly grapples with an apocalyptic mythos prevailing in the wake of modernity’s seemingly abandoned dreams (e.g. geopolitical peace, postcolonial development, environmental consciousness, economic prosperity, public understanding of science).

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Becomings often involve the development of hybrid, embodied and multisensorial languages to communicate across species boundaries. In this clip a puppy and magpie are immersed in an inter-species dance, becoming-with one another through play.

Swarming was the tactic, rather than the theme, of the Multispecies Salon in New Orleans. If the first two Multispecies Salon events at AAA (in 2006 and 2008) showcased works in progress by the emerging cohort of multispecies ethnographers, the 2010 event was an opportunity for these scholars to further explore connections among their already-published work.

Stefan Helmreich received his PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University and prior to coming to MIT held fellowships at Cornell, Rutgers, and NYU.. Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond,. The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography (with S. Eben Kirksey.

The emergence of multispecies ethnography (13) has drawn attention to the need for investigating interspecies relationships, including technology-mediated relationships, and to the theoretical and methodological issues raised by such investigations. The main question that underlies this.

Therefore, qualitative research can be described, rather than measurable data (quantitative) (Patton and Cochran, 2002). Ethnography is used to represent the study of realism through knowledge and experiences, and the understanding of human behaviour, and in addition It consists of debates on the emergence of today’s society.

This photo essay focuses on the hattisar, or elephant stable, a multispecies institution where humans and elephants live together in intimate and mutually entangled ways. The Nepali hattisar was historically staffed by the indigenous Tharu, who captured and tamed elephants for the rulers of Nepal for trade, for tribute, for use in agriculture, and for use in regal hunting expeditions.

Since the early 1980s, the concept of sustainability has been employed by designers to confront the problems deriving from the emergence of the environmental crisis. On the one hand, if this contributed to generating systemic design approaches and methods to mitigate the human impact on the planet, little has been done to explore sustainability as a concept that extends beyond anthropocentrism.