D Deangelo
Biographic Data
| ID | 46106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Deangelo |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Deangelo |
| SIGNATURE | DEANGELO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6746-9303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Grounding specifics
In the past decade, anthropologists have been seduced by methods that explore human and more-than-human relationships. This trend echoes an early pattern of cultural relativism in the discipline, with ‘culture’ replaced by ‘species’ as primary seduction. Yet species is a capacious term, and species themselves are complexly multiple, so multispecies ethnography risks blurring important distinctions. Attending to animals’ interactions requires appr…
Orcas: Our Shared Future
Orcas: Our Shared Future (curated through the Royal British Columbia Museum) uses the silhouette of an orca whale's tail as an archway entrance to the multi-room exhibition.This archway immediately frames and invites visitors into a multisensory exhibition that intermingles multiple interpretations of these creatures.
Farmers, soldiers, and ghostheads
Learning to Love Rats
This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a. deminers) learned to love the rats also changed how they also learned to live and work with each other. Deminers themselves were usually former soldiers, many of whom had fought on opposite side…
Polyvocalities
Commentary on “Explosiveness”
The Death of the Page
Return to Reinvent
Feminism Moves
Vector
Translucent Methods
Reframing Activism, Labor, and Collaborative Futures in Visual Anthropology
Explosive Landscapes
Demilitarizing disarmament with mine detection rats
This paper considers a new technology for mine action in Cambodia: the mine detection rat. Used successfully in Africa for mine detection since 2003, the rats were implemented for the first time in 2015 in Cambodia by the international NGO, APOPO. APOPO entered a small-scale partnership with the state mine action organization, Cambodian Mine Action Centre. The partnership revealed a tension between APOPO’s aspiration to ‘demilitarize’ mine action…
Demilitarizing disarmament with mine detection rats
This paper considers a new technology for mine action in Cambodia: the mine detection rat. Used successfully in Africa for mine detection since 2003, the rats were implemented for the first time in 2015 in Cambodia by the international NGO, APOPO. APOPO entered a small-scale partnership with the state mine action organization, Cambodian Mine Action Centre. The partnership revealed a tension between APOPO’s aspiration to ‘demilitarize’ mine action…
The Death of the Page
Learning to Love Rats
This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a. deminers) learned to love the rats also changed how they also learned to live and work with each other. Deminers themselves were usually former soldiers, many of whom had fought on opposite side…
Demilitarizing disarmament with mine detection rats
This paper considers a new technology for mine action in Cambodia: the mine detection rat. Used successfully in Africa for mine detection since 2003, the rats were implemented for the first time in 2015 in Cambodia by the international NGO, APOPO. APOPO entered a small-scale partnership with the state mine action organization, Cambodian Mine Action Centre. The partnership revealed a tension between APOPO’s aspiration to ‘demilitarize’ mine action…
Explosive Landscapes
Vector
Translucent Methods
Reframing Activism, Labor, and Collaborative Futures in Visual Anthropology
Return to Reinvent
Feminism Moves
Polyvocalities
Commentary on “Explosiveness”
The Death of the Page
Orcas: Our Shared Future
Orcas: Our Shared Future (curated through the Royal British Columbia Museum) uses the silhouette of an orca whale's tail as an archway entrance to the multi-room exhibition.This archway immediately frames and invites visitors into a multisensory exhibition that intermingles multiple interpretations of these creatures.
Farmers, soldiers, and ghostheads
Learning to Love Rats
This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a. deminers) learned to love the rats also changed how they also learned to live and work with each other. Deminers themselves were usually former soldiers, many of whom had fought on opposite side…
Grounding specifics
In the past decade, anthropologists have been seduced by methods that explore human and more-than-human relationships. This trend echoes an early pattern of cultural relativism in the discipline, with ‘culture’ replaced by ‘species’ as primary seduction. Yet species is a capacious term, and species themselves are complexly multiple, so multispecies ethnography risks blurring important distinctions. Attending to animals’ interactions requires appr…
Computer Science (7 works) · Citation (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Cambodian History and Society (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works)