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Reframing the Controversial Bushmeat Trade

With the origins of the COVID-19 spurring conversations around the consumption and trade of wild animals from the global South, Yale researchers are taking a closer look to understand the role of “bushmeat” to create a more balanced narrative.

Wetmarket

Snow Leopards and Tibetan Herders

Ontological Differences between Conservationist and Buddhist Ideas of Coexistence

This post is part of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s series highlighting the work of 2022 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. Dove lab member Yufang Gao is the 2022 Winner of the Rappaport Prize.

Snow leopard

An interview with Dove Lab member Al Lim

Get to know Teeraphon Phadungchit Lim, half Thai-Singaporean. Having studied in 4 countries on 4 continents with life experiences unlike any other and studying at top universities in the world such as Yale-NUS, LSE and Yale University.

Al in London

The Chiapaneco

Mayan Oral History of a Climate Disaster

This article, co-authored by Dove Lab member Christian Espinosa Schatz and his research assistant Geovani Aguilar Domingo, explores the Mam Mayans’ oral traditions surrounding catastrophic events, illuminating how Mayans understand extreme weather and climatic disasters today. 

Two older Sanjuaneros sit and chat on a bench in the central plaza of San Juan Atitán.

Lab members in the field