Environmental anthropology

Week 1

The online meeting will take place on Monday 03rd April at 10-12 (Brazil), 14-16 (Czech), 15-17 (Namibia), 16-18 (Uganda).

Link for the online meeting:


Recommended readings:

Ingold, Tim. 2013. Dreaming of dragons: on the imagination of real life. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19: 734-752.


Krenak, Ailton. 2022. Thinking With Your Head on Earth. In Luca Bacchini, Victoria Saramago (eds.). Literature Beyond the Human: Post-Anthropocentric Brazil, 235-239. New York: Routledge.


Further reading:

To be indicated during the lecture

Tsing, Anna; Mathews, Andrew and Bubandt, Nils. 2019. Patchy anthropocene: landscape structure, multiespecies history, and the retooling of anthropology. Current Anthropology 60(20): S186-197. 



Additional activity:

Creation of a collective word-cloud from the keyword “environment”. For this activity the participants are requested to access the link: https://www.menti.com/alnfpjckaivc

Once accessed, the participants should add 3 words they relate with the concept of “environment”. 

We kindly ask to fill the task at least a couple of days before the beginning of the course, so as to discuss the results during the first meeting.


Step for the final works:

Organization of the groups for the final works and instructions. 

We will select aleatorically the members of the groups taking into account the countries of origin, so as to have the groups composed of people form different countries as much as possible. 

For doing that, we will use the app: https://pickerwheel.com/tools/random-team-generator/

We will create a first contact among the people via emails, then each group is free to choose whatever platform or app to communicate among themselves.