Anthropology 236 - Biodiversity and Belonging on New Pangea

What is a species? Where do species belong? These questions are central to nature conservation, and answering them has profound implications. For a few hundred million years since the supercontinent Pangea split, movement between continents was severely restricted. In just a few centuries, these oceanic barriers were all but erased by intercontinental trade and travel. Ecologists deem this reconnected world “New Pangea,” fearing that nonnative organisms might displace native ones, but anthropologists have long shown that belonging is rarely binary. This course contends that the moment demands interdisciplinary scrutiny to understand the politics of inclusion in the cosmopolitan multispecies communities. Corequisite: ANT 236L. Restrictions: Not open to first-years. Enrollment limited to 18.

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