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Academic position:ÌýÌý Lecturer in Social Anthropology of the Environment

Department:ÌýÌý Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Anthropology

Telephone number:ÌýÌý +44 (0)20 7679 8620

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Biography:

I am a Lecturer in Social Anthropology of the Environment at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø. My research interests include the ethnography of Amazonia / lowland South America, human-environmental relationships, indigenous knowledge and rights, agriculture and fermentation technologies, shamanism and animist cosmologies, and the politics of conservation and sustainable development. Theoretically, my work is situated between social and environmental anthropology, and engages with ethnoecology, multispecies ethnography, posthumanist theory, and ontological approaches to anthropology. I am particularly interested in advancing a dedicated Anthropology of Plants / Phytoethnography.Ìý
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I completed my doctorate (DPhil) in Anthropology at the University of Oxford in 2015, focusing on indigenous ecological knowledge and practices in the savannahs and rainforests of northern Amazonia. My doctoral thesis, a product of eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with the Makushi people of southern Guyana, concerned people-plant relationships in the indigenous lifeworld and cosmology – largely in the domains of gardening, cooking and fermentation, traditional medicine, and shamanism. The study was framed by an appraisal of the impact of conservation and ecotourism on Makushi lifeways and environmental practices.

Relevant Publications:

• Daly, Lewis (In press). Cassava Spirit and the Seed of History: On Garden Cosmology in Indigenous Amazonia. Anthropological Forum, Special Issue: The Art of Gardens. L. Bolton and J. Mitchell (eds.)

• Daly, Lewis and Glenn H. Shepard Jr. (2019) Anthropology Today, Special Issue: Ethnography of Plants, 35(2):13–18.

• Daly, Lewis (2019) The Nature of Sweetness: An Indigenous Fermentation Complex in Amazonian Guyana. In K. Hockings and R. Dunbar (eds.), . Pp. 130–146. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Daly, Lewis and Kay Lewis-Jones (2018) . TEA: The Ethnobotanical Assembly, Issue 1: Winter 2018 [online]

• Daly, Lewis, Luiseach Nic Eoin, Katherine French, and Theresa Miller (2016) . Journal of Ethnobiology, Special Section: Botanical Ontologies, 36(1):1–9.

• Daly, Lewis (2015) . Engagement, a blog of the Anthropology and Environment Society, American Anthropological Association (AAA). December 8, 2015 [online]

Editorial Work:

• Co-editor -Ìý,Ìýan onlineÌýopen-access magazine about people-plant relationships

• Guest editor – , Special Section,ÌýJournal of Ethnobiology, 2016, 36(1)

Conference Organisation:

• 2017 – , Centre for Biocultural Diversity (CBCD), University of Kent

• 2014 – , The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford

Teaching:

I teach across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Social and Environmental Anthropology, including:

• ANTH0003: Introduction to Social Anthropology (UG)Ìý

• ANTH0069: Ethnography of Forest Peoples (UG and PG)

• ANTH0106: Anthropology of Development (PG)

• ANTH0105: Resource Use and Impacts (PG)Ìý

• ANTH0209: Biosocial Medical Anthropology (PG)

• Multispecies Ethnography in the Anthropocene (PG) – from 2021

• Environmental Anthropology (UG) – from 2021