Anthropology 216MT - Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Multispecies Ethnography: Across Humans, Animals, and Plants'

This course considers emerging strategies in Anthropology and allied disciplines for researching, witnessing, and documenting the full web of life, broadly conceived, within which human and non-human beings are entangled. We explore debates over non-human personhood and the rights of natural ecosystems, such as rivers, mountains, and the earth itself. Close attention is given to varied indigenous perspectives on reciprocal (and non-extractive) relations among diverse living beings, and the possibilities of intersubjective awareness across human and animal domains.

Prereq: ANTHR-105 or ENVST-100.