EBEN KIRKSEY is an American anthropologist whose work delves into the intricate connections between science and society. His analyses illuminate how scientific discoveries shape our understanding of the world, and how society, in turn, influences scientific inquiry. Kirksey's approach is marked by its ability to bridge profound academic insights with broad societal relevance, offering readers a fresh perspective on crucial contemporary issues. His influence extends across academic institutions and into wider public discourse.
In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places.
West Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto.
A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history.
An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity?