EBEN KIRKSEY es un antropólogo estadounidense cuyo trabajo profundiza en las intrincadas conexiones entre la ciencia y la sociedad. Sus análisis iluminan cómo los descubrimientos científicos dan forma a nuestra comprensión del mundo y cómo la sociedad, a su vez, influye en la investigación científica. El enfoque de Kirksey se distingue por su habilidad para tender puentes entre profundos conocimientos académicos y una amplia relevancia social, ofreciendo a los lectores una perspectiva fresca sobre cuestiones contemporáneas cruciales. Su influencia se extiende a través de instituciones académicas y hacia el discurso público más amplio.
In Emergent Ecologies Eben Kirksey insists that we should turn our attention toward small-scale ecologies and search for hope in the efforts of individuals who are building new ecologies, and in the plants, animals, and fungi that are flourishing in unexpected places.
West Papua has been occupied by the Indonesian military for forty years. The author, an anthropologist, went there planning to study the resistance movements working for independence. This title narrates the complexities of West Papuan attitudes, including their unfulfilled expectations of freedom following the fall of Suharto.
A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history.
An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity?