once sober shelter, mountain hut becomes an emotional place, a place where customers go for increasingly constructed and expensive experiences with impact on the surrounding environment
Indigenous environmental relationality and new cosmopolitical arenas in Andean Argentina
We contrast indigenous and non-indigenous practices of relation between humans and other-than-humans, at the same time highlighting the emergence of a new “cosmopolitical” arena in Andean Argentina.
Searching for, searching with: transformative anthropology for imagining more inclusive models of wildlife governance in the Trentino Alps
Moving from an ongoing research project in the Trentino Alps, this paper explores the transformative role of anthropological understandings in promoting collaborative models of wildlife governance.
Nexus of Science and Society in Risk Perception: Lessons from the 2012 Seti River Flash Flood in Nepal
This study explores integrating Western science and local knowledge to understand flood risks, using Nepal’s 2012 Seti River flood as a case study, advocating for interdisciplinary approaches
Engraved and ochre art from the Telem Fezza cave (Tassili-Tan-Ahaggar, Central Sahara, Algeria)
The walls of this cave and other small rock shelters in the vicinity feature numerous rock figures, mainly from the pastoral period, but we have also noted other wild animal figures.
Ancient Subsistence Technologies in an Andean/Amazonian Transition Zone
I report on a range of subsistence activities, including the introduction of lowland domesticates, documented at the Muyuksha archaeological site during and following the Preceramic Period.
Urban perspectives on abandonment and heritagization of mountains: Reflections on the example of Bolzano/Bozen in the European Alps
Urbanization connects cities and mountains through various linkages. The case of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, highlights how urbanization creates and changes (abandoned) heritage landscapes.
Bringing together students and researchers from Greenland and Austria: A transdisciplinary citizen science project on snow and environmental change
This presentation provides an overview of the Snow2School citizen science project, bridging different epistemologies and cultural contexts, and the challenges and opportunities it entails.
Heterogeneous subsistence adaptations across the Tibetan highlands: Archaeobotanical, palaeoproteomic, and stable isotopic evidence
Multidisciplinary research challenged uniform subsistence patterns for the Tibetan highlands in prehistory.
Go to the Tibetan Plateau and stay there: who and when?
Repeatedly occupied sites are crucial to understanding the initial colonization and subsequent permanent occupation of the Tibetan Plateau.