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This introduction to the Current Anthropology supplement, “Patchy Anthropocene: Landscape Structure, Multispecies History, and the Retooling of Anthropology,” proposes that the Anthropocene is not a uniform global blanket but rather a patchwork of entangled human and nonhuman histories. The authors argue that landscape provides a crucial scalar unit for understanding this patchwork and for rethinking the very nature of the human. Landscapes are always in the making, and their structure—understood as both the spatial distribution of elements and the temporal relations among them—shapes the possibilities for multispecies interactions. The introduction offers a set of concepts for analyzing landscape structure, including disturbance, succession, and landscape legacies, and it suggests that attending to the agency of nonhumans within landscapes requires a retooling of anthropological methods. The articles in the supplement demonstrate how this approach can illuminate diverse Anthropocene entanglements, from fungal ecologies to human-modified coastlines.

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