... and ecological worlds went to war. The haunting specter of capital joined the fray—animating the movements of cattle, grasses with animal rhizomes, rice seeds, and flighty ducks. Amid this warfare, the fringe-toed foam frog was just one tenacious parasite, a noisy agent eating at the table of another, which...

...Of Parasites and Contracts This chapter lays out a path for imagining an anthropology of the natural contract. It does so by staging a conversation between Michel Serres’s writings on parasites and symbiotic ontologies and anthropological theories of exchange and by exploring the complex...

... that the “functioning” of such paths is best understood in terms of their capacity to fail. It focuses on the ways such paths were created, distributed, and regimented during fieldwork, as instigated by the NGO as much as by villagers. equivalence commensuration translation portability parasite ...

... equivalence commensuration translation portability parasite ...

... porosity natural contract parasite comprehension ...

... Gregory Bateson Nature liminality parasite ...

... Mande trickster natural justice parasitism symbiosis ...

... gifts hoarding Bedouin Jordan parasitism hospitality ...

... COVID-19 safety practices Anthropocene parasitism ...

... traditions of the Balga tribes against familiar Maussian ideas and the models of parasitism suggested by Michel Serres, this chapter argues that hospitality, as Bedouin know it, is constructed in ways that resist the romanticism that besets anthropological portraits of “pre-capitalist” and “premodern” gift...