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The Anthropology of Our External Organs and the concept of Co-heterogeneity

More-Than-Human Vol.7 An Interview with Toshiaki Ishikura (Interviewer: Taisuke Karasawa)

Toshiaki Ishikura + more

Dialogue about the meaning of eating/being eaten from nature as a “gaizou” that spreads outside of oneself, the possibility of a model “co-heterogeneity” that beyond the social community, and the secret story of the “Cosmo-Eggs” project.

Imaginative Ecologies and the Possibilities of Anthropology

More-Than-Human Vol.6 An Interview with Anand Pandian (Interviewer: Shoko Yamada)

Anand Pandian + more

In the anthropological encounter, some sensibilities let us imagine an alternative kind of environmentalism. Anthropology's method of experience is a constant process of transforming the texture of our collective thinking and being.

From Macaque’s Point of View: Human-Animal Conflict and Interspecies Intimacy in Japan

More-Than-Human Vol.5 An Interview with John Knight (Interviewer: Oribe Gohara)

John Knight + more

Multi-sited ethnography is one way that rural depopulation and wildlife encroachment can come together. Talk about human-wildlife relationships in the Mountain area in Japan from the monkey perspective.

Thinking Through Human-Animal Labor

More-Than-Human Vol.4 An Interview with Alex Blanchette (Interviewer: Mariko Yoshida)

Alex Blanchette + more

Ethnography focusing on changes forms of human labor alongside animals' bodily conditions. The life and death cycles of the industrial pig reorganizes not only human communities, but human and nonhuman bodies' engagement.

Mongolian Medicine, Multispecies Storytelling and Multimodal Anthropology

More-Than-Human Vol.2 An Interview with Natasha Fijn (Interviewer: Ran Muratsu)

Natasha Fijn + more

Reinterpret coronavirus from the perspective of multispecies medicine in Mongolia. Multimodal Anthropology let us think beyond species by showing different perspective and ontologies towards animals in other cultures.

The Actuality of Ecocriticism

More-Than-Human Vol.1 An Interview with Yuki Masami (Interviewer: Egawa Ayumi)

Masami Yuki + more

"Ecocriticism," which is a literary study of the relationship between humans and the environment, create a common ground for dialogue through imagination. "More-Than-Human" as spoken by the translator of "Sensitive Spell."

ÉKRITS Strollers’ Guide

Hiroshi Obayashi + more

We designed the tags for ÉKRITS aiming at loosely linking information, instead of dividing them into categories - As the signposts to stroll around this forest of discourse.