Author: wbtd

Scholar and activist, working on anthropology, ecology and Buddhism. Long-term research in ethnobiology of Asian mountain communities and culturally signficant landscapes (e.g. sacred sites, protected areas) and anthropogenic bidoversity (biocultural diversity). Visiting fellow at University of Hamburg.

  • Unexpected spreads

    By which I mean neither awful sandwich smears nor sprawling midriffs. This afternoon's beach walk confirmed my suspicion that last year's spring floods, which deposited quite a bit of sediments...

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  • Monsoon effects

    This is a recovered post, originally from 2012-07-10 The monsoon here in Nepal has been late in arriving, and not too convincing on arrival. Some valleys are still parched; seasonal...

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  • The yam question

    This is post recovered from 2010, when we were staying in Florida and working with Bron Taylor and Rick Stepp on a special issue of Religion, Nature and Culture on...

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  • Awkward moments

    (This is a repost of a posting originally made in August 2013, lost when the server was hacked. The repost was requested by James Sharrock.) Most readers here know that...

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  • An adequate revolution: Copernicus or Kepler?

    The shift we are presently seeing in the sciences of life, society and consciousness are happening against resistance imposed by entrenched world views. If we are to move past the...

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