Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
A Career Dedicated to Researching Human/Plant World Making: The UBC Roots
ANSO 134
11:30 am-1:00 pm
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Laura Rival
Abstract:
Prof. Rival will outline through a range of ethnographical examples derived from her work with the Huaorani (Ecuador) and the Makushi (Guyana) the approach to life and botanical ontologies that she is currently developing with her research students. She will show how the training she received in the department in the early 1980s profoundly influenced my anthropological thinking and helped her shape the Human/Plant World Making Research Programme.
About the speaker:
Laura Rival is an Associate Professor at Oxford University, where she teaches various courses relating to the Anthropology of Nature, Society, and Development. Her research interests include Anthropology and interdisciplinarity; Amerindian conceptualizations of nature and society; historical and political ecology; development, conservation and environmental policies in Latin America; sustainability in the Anthropocene; indigenous peoples and theories of human development. She has written several books and numerous papers on these topics. She is currently working on a book exploring the world making practices of Latin American and European agroecologists.
