Profile​

I am an anthropologist with a long-term interest in studying human-environment relations. Based on fieldwork conducted in the outer island of Indonesia over the last five teen years, I have studied the politics and poetics of nature conservation, resource extraction in the frontier zone, indigeneity as cultural politics, and how producing and sharing food generates communal values. My current research interests revolve around climate change and indigenous foodways, multi-species ethnography, and the peculiarity of the Anthropocene. Specifically, I am researching two research topics: the relationship between climate change and indigenous people’s foodways and the relationship between extraction and animism in the Anthropocene. Beyond academics, I participated in the engagement of ethnographic methodologies and endeavours with conservation and development projects, believing that anthropology can be both a constructive and critical ally for any social intervention. 

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• https://darmanto.org