A new Fieldsights dossier, Dissonant Ecotones, Fractured Strata: Histories of Environmental Anthropology, is now available from the Society for Cultural Anthropology.

This series of essays is the result of the April 2025 conference, Environmental Anthropologies: Pasts, Presents, Futures organized by the History of Anthropology Review in collaboration with Yale’s History of Science and Medicine Program, held in New Haven.

Edited by HAR editors and advisors, the series includes contributions by anthropologists and historians of science: Elaine Ayers, Eduardo S. Brondizio with Ryan Adams and Stefano Fiori, Sophie Chao, Deborah Coen, Michael Degani, Mayanthi Fernando, Megnaa Mehtta, Anand Pandian, and Josh Sterlin. 

The essays address environmental anthropology’s diverse intellectual and political histories; ethnobotany; plantation ecologies; legal-material approaches to land and sediment; and seasonal “modes.” It appears as part of Fieldsights’ “Theorizing the Contemporary” initiative.

The full publication is available here.