Dr Laura Rival
A shift in the way nature is thought about and valued is underway. My theoretical ambition is to contribute to this shift by theorizing nature, society and development from an anthropological perspective.
Latest publication
2016: Huaorani transformations in 21st century Ecuador. Treks into the future of time. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
The indigenous people of the Amazon Basin known as the Huaorani are one of the world’s most intriguing peoples. The community of just under four thousand in Ecuador has been known to the public primarily for…
Latest project
Anthropology & Interdisciplinarity
The need to reflect collectively on the potentials of anthropological knowledge within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research team has never been greater. Anthropologists are increasingly carrying their research within teams that...
About Dr Laura Rival
Dr Laura Rival is Associate Professor at Oxford...
...where she has been teaching and researching the anthropology of nature, society and development since 2001. In addition to her position at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID, also known as Queen Elizabeth House, QEH), where she has directed the MPhil in Development Studies, she is an active member of the School of Anthropology (SAME), the Institute of Human Sciences (IHS), and the Latin American Centre (LAC).
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