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Humans, Interview, Plants, Practices

“More-than-Human:” An Interview on Marind Multispecies Cosmology – with Sophie Chao and Sanja Savkić Šebek

A 4A_Lab conversation between Environmental Anthropologist Sophie Chao and Art Historian Sanja Savkić Šebek about distributed personhood, Indigenous knowledge, and multispecies cosmology among the Marind communities of West Papua.

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Field Notes, Objects, Plants, Practices

Sullu Sullu, an Abortifacient Plant at the Service of the Inca Empire

Human beings are rarely represented in the art produced in the heartland of the Inca Empire. However, in the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin we find a remarkable exception: a ceramic jar from the Cusco region on which six women are depicted holding a tree branch with two flowers sprouts. Who are these women, and what was the nature of their relationship with the plant?

Bat-Ami Artzi