Tag: Special Issue articles

This article addresses more-than-humans in ethnography by focusing on embodied encounters during fieldwork with the help of concepts such as relationality, being with, and with-nessing microbes. Through an ethnographic study of a diarrhoea …

For Amazonian Indigenous people, the forest plays a vital role in sustaining their subsistence; it also serves as the social arena for interactions between different classes of beings. This paper analyses forest cosmo-politics and the agenc…

Relations with microbes—especially the pathogens that cause infectious diseases–affect the methods and products of ethnographic field research in multiple ways, both corporeal and conceptual. In work with Indigenous people and their histori…

More-than-human beings consistently challenge ethnographic practices. However, ethnographic training has not consistently adopted such actors as irrefutable subjects of field research. In this article, I describe how the relationship betwee…

“Eric, you no longer have an Americano soul,” my Avá-Guaraní sister told me as my 2006-2007 fieldwork was ending. In 2005, her mother became my ritual sponsor in the naming/ensouling ritual, mitã karaí, identifying me as “Yvyrajú”, indicati…

Academic research results can serve diverse communities and individuals, whilst the research can itself transform researchers in multiple ways. In this article, I examine the significance of more-than-human beings in the process of becomin…