Researcher in Ethnobiology and Linguistics, University of Oxford
I am an ecological anthropologist whose work in northern Mexico and Paraguay focuses on the connections between language, landscape, narrative, and knowledge. My particular interest is ecological knowledge revitalization in service of Indigenous peoples' and local communities' resource and land rights. My recent writings are on narratives of deep historical ecologies in the Americas. As the director of ethnoecology for the Ethno-ornithology World Atlas (EWAtlas.net) project, I work with our interdisciplinary team to investigate links between naming practices, changing landscapes, and archival returns in digital environments.
How birds are used to reveal the future
Mar 01, 2020 13:37 pm UTC| Nature
People around the world and throughout history have used birds to think about and predict the future. In Wales, the call of an early-arriving cuckoo in the spring foretells a good crop of hay later in the year. For Aymara...
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