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WORDS Jon Waterhouse IMAGES Mary Marshall Traditional community on the Giraffe River (Bahr-el-Zaraf) in South Sudan. We are now living in the digital era, when practically every component of our…
WORDS AND IMAGES Sonja Swift Golden light on dusty hills, Los Osos, California. When it rains in California I rejoice. I see the land drinking. I see grass blades emerging,…
WORDS Olga Mironenko IMAGES David Rapport Life’s traces #1. 2017 Our planet is populated by an incredibly wide variety of creatures. Coming in different sizes and with different sets of…
WORDS AND IMAGES K. B. Wilson In his essay “Biocultural Diversity: Reason, Ethics, and Emotion” (this issue of Langscape), David Harmon traces the emergence of the field of biocultural diversity…
David Harmon Kayapó women gathering in the Amazon rainforest. Photo: Cristina Mittermeier A few years ago, Luisa Maffi shared an email with me. It was from a writer, well-traveled and…
During a pandemic, Indigenous communities tend to be among the most vulnerable, given their often-limited access to water, food supplies, adequate healthcare, and other factors. In this special "Pandemic Perspectives"…
Guillermo Rodríguez Navarro “Imagine a pyramid standing alone by the sea, each side a hundred miles long. It’s a mountain nearly four miles high. In its folds imagine every different…
Jacquelyn Ross The moon glows overhead, brushing the waves with silver as they roll into shore. Down, under the surface, a soft cloud is released into the water. And, close…
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