Nature(s)

This list explores issues that can be categorized as environmental anthropology, which address debates, themes and notions centered on ecological issues, agriculture, scarcity, population and notions of nature, but this list pushes beyond this single conception of nature(s). It is also a space that we (as readers and writers) can explore the notions of nature(s) in other ventures and debates centered on the “biological,” “natural” as well as biological theory. As an example we can explore the vast anthropological literature on biomedical research, but at the same time we can use this list as an entry point for the analysis of anthropology as the “human science” and the question of “human nature” by re/opening dialogue with the other fields of anthropology such as human behavior ecology, cultural ecology, biological anthropology, primatology and sociobiology.

Indigenous Cosmopilitics in the Andes: Conceptual Reflections Beyond 'Politics'
Marisol de la Cadena
Cultural Anthropology May 2010, Vol. 25, No. 2:334-370
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On the Trail of Living Modified Organisms: Environmentalism Within and Against Neoliberal Order
Thomas Pearson
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 712-745
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Stories and Cosmogonies: Imagining Creativity Beyond "Nature" and "Culture"
Stuart McLean
Cultural Anthropology May 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2: 213-245
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Potato Ontology: Surviving Postsocialism in Russia
Nancy Ries
Cultural Anthrpology May 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2: 191-212
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Imperial Debris: Reflections on Ruins and Ruination
Ann Laura Stoler
Cultural Anthropology May 2008, Vol. 23, No. 2: 191-219.
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Fijian Water in Fiji and New York: Local Politics and a Global Commodity
Martha Kaplan
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 685-706.
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The Allure of the Transnational: Notes on Some Aspects of the Political Economy of Water in India
Ananthakrishnan Aiyer
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 640-658.
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Consuming Interests: Water, Rum, and Coca-Cola from Ritual Propitiation to Corporate Expropriation in Highland Chiapas
June Nash
Cultural Anthropology Nov 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: pp. 621-639.
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Pesticides in Coca-Cola and Pepsi: Consumerism, Brand Image, and Public Interest in a Globalizing India
Neeraj Vedwan
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 659-684.
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The Work of the New Economy: Consumers, Brands, and Value Creation
Robert J. Foster
Cultural Anthropology Nov 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 707-731.
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Governmentality, Language Ideology, and the Production of Needs in Malagasy Conservation and Development
Paul W. Hanson
Cultural Anthropology May 2007, Vol. 22, No. 2: 244-284.
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Bioethnic Conscription: Genes, Race, and Mexicana/o Ethnicity in Diabetes Research
Michael J. Montoya
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1: 94-128.
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Between Global Flows and Local Dams: Indigenousness, Locality, and the Transnational Sphere in Jharkhand, India
Kaushik Ghosh
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 4: 501-534.
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Cultural Critique in and of American Culture
Kim Fortun
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3: 496-500.

Third Nature: Making Space and Time in the Great Limpopo Conservation Area
David McDermott Hughes
Cultural Anthropology May 2005, Vol. 20, No. 2: 157-184.
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The Flexible and the Pliant: Disturbed Organisms of Soviet Modernity
Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 3: 392-428.

Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands
Karen-Sue Taussig
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 3: 305-336.

Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post–Cold War New Mexico
Joseph Masco
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 4: 517-550.

Making the Monkey: How the Togean Macaque Went from "New Form" to "Endemic Species' in Indonesians' Conservation Biology
Celia Lowe
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 4: 491-516.

Material Consumers, Fabricating Subjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational Feminist Research
Priti Ramamurthy
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2003, Vol. 18, No. 4: 524-550.

Bobbittizing Texaco: Dis-Membering Corporate Capital and Re-Membering the Nation in Ecuador
Suzana Sawyer
Cultural Anthropology May 2002, Vol. 17, No. 2: 150-180

After Culture: Reflections on the Apparition of Anthropology in Artificial Life, a Science of Simulation
Stefan Helmreich
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2001, Vol. 16, No. 4: 612-627.

The Global Situation
Anna Tsing
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2000, Vol. 15, No. 3: 327-360.

A-Whaling We Will Go: Encounters of Knowledge and Memory at the Makah Cultural and Research Center
Patricia Pierce Erikson
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1999, Vol. 14, No. 4: 556-583.

Bioprospecting the Public Domain
Stephen B. Brush
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1999, Vol. 14, No. 4: 535-555.

The Salt of the Montaña: Interpreting Indigenous Activism in the Rain Forest
Hanne Veber
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1998, Vol. 13, No. 3: 382-413.

"44Local Theory": Nature and the Making of an Amazonian Place
Hugh Raffles
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1999, Vol. 14, No. 3: 323-360.

Subaltern Struggles and the Politics of Place: Remapping Resistance in Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands
Donald S. Moore
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1998, Vol. 13, No. 3: 344-381.

Response to Schneider's "The Power of Culture"
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Cultural Anthropology May 1997, Vol. 12, No. 2: 278-281.

Meat and Strength: The Moral Economy of a Chilean Food Riot
Benjamin S. Orlove
Cultural Anthropology May 1997, Vol. 12, No. 2: 234-268.

"Keep Cyprus Clean": Littering, Pollution, and Otherness
Vassos Argyrou
Cultural Anthropology May 1997, Vol. 12, No. 2: 159-178.

"Indian Blood": Reflections on the Reckoning and Refiguring of Native North American Identity
Pauline Turner Strong & Barrik Van Winkle
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1996, Vol. 11, No. 4: 547-576.

Full Brother-Sister Marriage in Roman Egypt: Another Look
Seymour Parker
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1996, Vol. 11, No. 3: 362-376.

Stamping the Earth with the Name of Allah: Zikr and the Sacralizing of Space among British Muslims
Pnina Werbner
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1996, Vol. 11, No. 3: 309-338.

"These Are the Stories That the Dogs Tell": Discourses of Identity and Difference in Ethnography and Science Fiction
David Samuels
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1996, Vol. 11, No. 1: 88-118.

Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories
Fernando Coronil
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1996, Vol. 11, No. 1: 51-87.

Social Body and Embodied Subject: Bodiliness, Subjectivity, and Sociality among the Kayapo
Terence Turner
Cultural Anthropology May 1995, Vol. 10, No. 2: 143-170.

Sarcophagus: Chernobyl in Historical Light
Adriana Petryna
Cultural Anthropology May 1995, Vol. 10, No. 2: 196-220.

Gender, Genetics, and Generation: Reformulating Biology in Lesbian Kinship
Corinne P. Hayden
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1995, Vol. 10, No. 1: 41-63.

Maasai on the Lawn: Tourist Realism in East Africa
Edward M. Bruner & Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1994, Vol. 9, No. 4: 435-470.

Comments on Emily Martin's "The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s"
David J. Hess
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1994, Vol. 9, No. 3: 398-401.

The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s
Emily Martin
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1994, Vol. 9, No. 3: 383-397.

Ethnographic Showcases, 1870-1930
Raymond Corbey
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1993, Vol. 8, No. 3: 338-369.

Male-Female Separation and Forms of Society in Aboriginal Australia
Francesca Merlan
Cultural Anthropology May 1992, Vol. 7, No. 2: 169-193.

National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees
Liisa Malkki
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1992, Vol. 7, No. 1: 24-44

Space for Everything (A Commentary)
Michael J. Watts
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1992, Vol. 7, No. 1: 115-129.

Our Master, Our Brother: Levi-Strauss's Debt to Rousseau
T. M. Luhrmann
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1990, Vol. 5, No. 4: 396-413.

The Dialectics of Deeds and Words: Or Anti-the-Antis (And the Anti-Antis)
Robert F. Murphy
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1990, Vol. 5, No. 3: 331-337.

The Nuer Incest Prohibition and the Nature of Kinship: Alterlogical Reckoning
T. M. S. Evens
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1989, Vol. 4, No. 4: 323-346.

Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the Third World
Arturo Escobar
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1988, Vol. 3, No. 4: 428-443.

Concrete Topographies
Marilyn Strathern
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1988, Vol. 3, No. 1: 88-96.

Scientific Dialogue and Critical Hermeneutics
Michael M. J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1988, Vol. 3, No. 1: 3-15.

Microparasites and Macroparasites
Peter J. Brown
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1: 155-171.

Industrial Agriculture in Evolutionary Perspective
Peggy F. Barlett
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1: 137-154.

Divergence between Cultural Success and Reproductive Fitness in Preindustrial Cities
Bruce M. Knauft
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1: 94-114.

The Individual and Society in Biological and Cultural Anthropology
Robert A. Paul
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1: 80-93.

The Evolution of Ethnic Markers
Robert Boyd , , Peter J. Richerson
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1: 65-79.

Deception and Evolutionary Biology
Euclid O. Smith
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1: 50-64.

Adoption and Fosterage in Human Societies: Adaptations or Enigmas?
Joan B. Silk
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1: 39-49.

Interactions of Physical Maturation and Cultural Practice in Ontogeny: Kikuyu Adolescents
Carol M. Worthman
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1987, Vol. 2, No. 1: 29-38.

How Hunter-Gatherers' Stories "Make Sense": Semantics and Adaptation
Megan Biesele
Cultural Anthropology May 1986, Vol. 1, No. 2: 157-170.

Risk in Culture: The American Conflict over Nuclear Power
Gary L. Downey
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1986, Vol. 1, No. 4: 388-412.