Aníbal Arregui

Aníbal García Arregui, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Department of Ecological Anthropology

Academia: https://ub.academia.edu/An%C3%ADbalGArregui

Twitter: @agarregui

Research interests

I am an anthropologist interested in the intersections between environmental anthropology, the anthropology of the body, and multispecies ethnography. Since 2006 I conduct fieldwork in Brazilian Amazonia in quilombola and ribeirinho communities. In 2017 I started new fieldwork to study the emerging relations of humans and wild boars in Barcelona. I am incoming convenor of the Humans and Other Living Beings EASA Network (HOLB).

Education

2013   PhD in Social Anthropology (University of Barcelona)
2008   Master of Advanced Studies in Anthropology (UB)
2006   Degree in Anthropology (UB)
2005   Degree in Psychology (UB)

Publications

Books

In preparation Corporeal Amazonia. A praxiography of forest futures (manuscript submission expected in summer 2021)

2018 (ed.) Decolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures and the Asymmetries of Memory. Münster: Waxmann. (with Gesa Mackenthun and Stephanie Wodianka)

2013 La Selva Tecnológica: Sistemas Sociotécnicos y Antropología Simétrica en Comunidades Ribereñas del Bajo Amazonas.Barcelona: Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (online).

Peer reviewed publications

2020 ‘The Quilombola Movement. Sensing Futures in Afroindigenous Amazonia’. Ethos. 48 (3-4) (forthcoming).

2020 ‘Conectando con la Amazonia transparente. El cuerpo Afroindígena y la communicación más allá de las élites’. Revista Española de Antropología Americana 50 (Forthcoming 2020)

2020 ‘Viralscapes. The bodies of others after COVID-19’. Allegra Lab. March 31, 2020

2019 ‘Positional Wildness. Amazonian Ribeirinhos, Pink Dolphins and Interspecies Affections’. Ethnos. Journal of Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2019.1619606

2018 ‘Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical Mimicries of Climate Science and Shamanism’. Anthropological Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499617753335

2015 ‘Amazonian Quilombolas and the Technopolitics of Aluminum’. Journal of Material Culture. 20(3):149-172

2014 ‘“Teoría”, “Inteligencia” y “Ciencia” como Índices Bajo Amazónicos del Conocimiento Incorporado’. Amazônica - Revista de Antropologia. 6 (1): 90-108

2011 ‘Too “High” Tech: Metonymical Fallacies and Fetishism in the Perception of Technology’.Journal of Contemporary Anthropology 2(1): 46-62.

2008 ‘La Tecnología en el Cuerpo: Biomecánica de los Quilombolas en dos Selvas Brasileñas’. (Con)textos: Revista d’Antropologia i Investigació Social 1: 23-40.

Not peer-reviewed publications

2019 ‘This Mess is a “World”! Environmental Diplomats in the Mud of Anthropology’. In: Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World. Creating a Cosmopolitics of Change. Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability. Rosalyn Bold (Ed). pp. 183-202. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

2018 ‘Ribeirinho Hunting Techno-Animism. On the Inexact Lines of Amazonian Modernity’. In: Indigenous Modernities in South America. Ernst Halbmayer. (ed.) pp: 164-183. Herefordshire: Sean Kingston Publishing.

2018 ‘Displaced Bodies, Imprinted worlds’. Video-essay(10 min). In: Displacements. The 2018 Biennial Conference of the Society of Cultural Anthropology, 19-21 April 2018. Available at: https://displacements.jhu.edu/tradition-and-performance-displacements-of-the-present-in-latin-america/

2018 ‘Introduction’. In: Decolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures and the Asymmetries of Memory.pp: 7-28.Münster: Waxmann. (with Gesa Mackenthun and Stephanie Wodianka).

2018 ‘Cultivating the Sky’. In: Decolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures and the Asymmetries of Memory.pp: 257-273.Münster: Waxmann.

2014 ‘Nature-Culture-Ecologies: Heritage in Transcultural Contexts’. In H/Soz/kult.Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften. Available at:https://tinyurl.com/y6vrdksu

2014 ‘Digging into the Smartness: A Short Technopolitical History of Vienna’s Urban Lakeside’. Proceedings of the 19^th International Conference on Urban Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society. 21-23 May, Vienna, Austria. http://www.corp.at

2012 ‘Paz implícita y violencia imaginada en comunidades quilombolas del río Erepecurú’. In: La paz dede abajo. Perspectivas antropológicas sobre la paz en contextos indígenas y afroamericanos. Canals, R; Celigueta, G; & Orobitg, G. (ed.). Pp. 39-43. Barcelona: Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona.

2011 ‘La Selva Parcelada: Reforma Agraria y Fragmentación Social en el Bajo Amazonas’. In: Horizontes do Brazil- Escenarios, Intercambios y Diversidad, Barcelona: Ediciones APEC, p. 389-403.

Book reviews

2020 DELA TORRE, Oscar2018. The People of the River: Nature and Identity in BlackAmazonia, 1835-1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press,Journal of Latin American Studies. 52(3): 697-99 doi:10.1017/S0022216X20000851

2020 CHUA, Liana; MATHUR, Nayanika (eds.). 2018. Who Are ’We’? Reimagining Alterity and Affinity in Anthropology. Berghahn Books. Social Anthropology. 28(2): 532-34

2020 WAGNER, Roy. 2019. La invención de la cultura. Traducción y prólogo de Pedro Pitarch. Madrid: Nola. 331 pp. Disparidades. Revista de Antropología 75(1), enero-junio 2020, e014a eISSN: 2659-6881

2012 MARTÍNEZ MAURI, Mònica; LARREA KILLIGER, Cristina. 2011). Antropología social, desarrollo y cooperación internacional. Introducción a los fundamentos básicos y debates actuales”. AIBR Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana 7 (2), p. 248-253