Code
01D26819
Duration
01 October 2019 → 31 October 2020
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Landscape and ecological history
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Social sciences
- Area studies
- Ecological anthropology
Keywords
human-nature relations
bees
posthumanism
commodification
multispecies ethnography
ecological anthropology
Project description
This project assesses the cultural significance of bees and how this is transformed through commercialisation in Tanzania from an anthropological perspective. Using the approach of multispecies ethnography, this research approaches ‘human-bee relations’ as co-constitutive interactions. This integrated perspective challenges the Western culture-nature dichotomy, offering a new interpretation of East African cultural dynamics that acknowledging the formative influence of ecological relations.