Two Proposals

Proposal 1: Anthropology Beyond the Human Eduardo Kohn Ethnographic attention to human-animal relations in Amazonia reveals the constitutively semiotic nature of all life.This helps us appreciate more broadly the ways in which semiotic logics that are not necessarily human or language-like underlie the modes by which thoughts and lives form associations. This changes our understanding of relationality, arguably anthropology’s central concern. Proposal 2: Humans as Niche Constructors, as Primates and with Primates: Synergies for Anthropology in the Anthropocene Agustín Fuentes Humans are primates and consummate niche constructors. If we hope to be both relevant and successful investigators in the multispecies word of the Anthropocene, we need an anthropological practice that places humans and other organisms in integrated and shared ecological and social spaces. Ethnoprimatology and a constructivist evolutionary theory help us move towards a place where the biological and social are folded into an integrative anthropology, in which a myriad of entangled agents and theoretical perspectives are central in investigating the processes of becoming human

Anthropocene · Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Human science · Niche construction · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education · Philosophy · Ecology

• Niche Expansion and the Natural History of Human-Cat Kinship

  Open Access•Jessica W Lynch, C M Kelty•Current Anthropology•2025

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• Attending to the Nightingale

  Michael Silvers, Michael B Silvers•Ethnomusicology•2020

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• Interspecies Relations and Agrarian Worlds

  Shaila Seshia Galvin•Annual Review of Anthropology•2018

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