Multispecies Ethnography and the Materiality of Landscapes of Extinction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3914186 |
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| Authors | Cameron Boyle (0000-0001-8906-5377, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 465-481 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2201-1919 • E-ISSN: 2201-1919 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/22011919-11713422 |
| OpenAlex | W4412706524 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
As a contribution to extinction studies, this article presents a multispecies ethnographic account of the materiality of lost species through experiences from two field sites in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the first, the article's author journeyed through a series of underground caves to encounter the bones of moa and other lost birds that haunt this subterranean world. The art of noticing the bones rendered them a material substrate from which to creatively story the lives and entanglements of these birds. In the second, the author recounts a ceremony for the reintroduction of the underground parasitic flower, wood rose, to an ecosanctuary. Here the focus is on the haunting absence of wood rose's locally extinct pollinator, the lesser short-tailed bat. The article argues that multispecies ethnography in landscapes of extinction can generate new possibilities for the conservation of damaged multispecies relations
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Extinction (optical mineralogy · Materiality (auditing · Sociology · Anthropology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Geology · Paleontology
Spectral Crows in Hawai’i
From The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time
The silence of the huia
Piecing Together the Extinct Great Auk
Whale Falls, Suspended Ground, and Extinctions Never Known
Staying with the Trouble
Introduction
Geographies of conservation I
Ecological homelands
A thousand plateaus
Extinction and the End of Futures
Slowing Time in the Museum in a Period of Rapid Extinction
On Auks and Awkwardness
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Lively Ethography
Multispecies Studies
The bones beneath the streets
Ghost species
| Highly cited | No |
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