Project

On be(e)ing human: An ethnography of human-bee relations in the districts of Kigoma and Liwale in Tanzania.

Code
01D26819
Looptijd
01-10-2019 → 31-10-2020
Financiering
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Landscape and ecological history
  • Social sciences
    • Area studies
    • Ecological anthropology
Trefwoorden
commodificatie ecologische antropologie mens-natuur relaties bijen posthumanisme
 
Projectomschrijving

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.