In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive
pork complex, where almost 7 million hogs are birthed, raised, and killed every year. In …

What are living bodies made of? Protein modelers tell us that our cells are composed of
millions of proteins, intricately folded molecular structures on the scale of nanoparticles …

In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad
roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and …

This review surveys the past 30 years of the anthropology of corporate animal agribusiness,
analyzing how various themes embedded in the words of the article's title—industrial, meat …

Over the last decade, infectious disease outbreaks have heightened fears of a catastrophic
pandemic passing from animals to humans. From Ebola and bird flu to swine flu and MERS …

C5856. indb 127 4/16/12 2: 24 PM 128 male pregnancy, matrix, and hospitality
congratulating him on giving birth to his first baby, acknowledging camaraderie with a fellow …

Devised in the 1940s by the biologist CH Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a
metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it …

Food is both a material out of which human cultures get made and a product of them. From
ancient Egyptian grains to the bread riots of eighteenth century England to the fast-food …

The development of the One World, One Health agenda coincides in time with the
appearance of a different model for the management of human–animal relations: the genetic …

Winner of the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize for Best Single-Authored Book, 2019-2022
Critics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite …