Animals, Plants, People, and Things: A Review of Multispecies Ethnography

@inproceedings{Ogden2013AnimalsPP,
  title={Animals, Plants, People, and Things: A Review of Multispecies Ethnography},
  author={Laura A. Ogden and Billy Hall and Kimiko Tanita},
  year={2013}
}
Th is article defi nes multispecies ethnography and links this scholarship to broader currents within academia, including in the biosciences, philosophy, political ecology, and animal welfare activism. Th e article is organized around a set of productive tensions identifi ed in the review of the literature. It ends with a discussion of the “ethnographic” in multispecies ethnography, urging ethnographers to bring a “speculative wonder” to their mode of inquiry and writing. 
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