Multispecies Ethnography

Bibliographic Data

ID8092342
AuthorsPiers Locke (University of Canterbury, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages1-3
Publication date2018-09-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1491
OpenAlexW4239163378
ISBN9781118924396
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited10

Multispecies ethnography is an approach that aims to consider the agency of nonhuman life forms and their social, historical, and ecological connectivity with human life. Extending the ethnographic gaze, it explores the ways other life forms are implicated with human lives, landscapes, and technologies, whether terrestrial, airborne, aquatic, or microscopic. This challenges the humanist epistemology upon which ethnography traditionally depends, which has conceptually and ecologically segregated the human. Multispecies ethnography draws on posthumanist theory, which also informs similar developments in geography and in science and technology studies. As a more‐than‐human approach to anthropology, multispecies ethnography is open to perspectives from the natural as well as the social sciences, often engaging with other life sciences in order to integrate multiple understandings of the mutual becomings that entangle human and nonhuman life in shared environments

Agency (philosophy · Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Human life · Human science · Humanism · Posthumanism · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Philosophy · Primate Behavior and Ecology · Ecology

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