Anthropology and the Environment

Welcome to the home page of anthropologists interested in ecology, the environment, and environmentalism. We are part of the American Anthropological Association, the professional society of American anthropologists. We welcome members from countries worldwide.

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We are offering cash prizes and awards to scholars of environmental anthropology. Click here to find out about deadlines and how to nominate yourself or someone else.

A&E Newsletter

Newsletter items are originally published as a column in the Anthropology Newsletter, a monthly publication of the American Anthropological Association. Past newsletters are archived here. The newsletter is not published in June, July or August. If you would like to contribute to the newsletter, please email the editor, Terre Satterfield.

What's New!

Congratulaitons to the winners of this year's A&E Awards!

Junior Scholar Award - Colin West (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) for his paper, "Domestic Transitions, Desiccation, Agricultural Intensification, and Livelihood Diversification among Rural Households on the Central Plateau, Burkina Faso." American Anthropologist. 111(3):275-288, 2009.

Roy A. Rappaport Graduate Student Award - Sarah Besky (University of Winconsin - Madison) for her paper, “Garden Variety Kinship: Shifting Moral Economies and Relationships of Care on Darjeeling Tea Plantations."

Small Grants Awards for Collaborative Problem Solving - Karl Hoerig for his proposal "Coordinating Efforts to Perpetuate Western Apache Environmental Knowledge" (USA), and Kristin Vander-Molen for her proposal “of Hurricanes and Hot Peppers: Bringing Local Legends back to Cotacachi’s children” (Ecuador).