In June 1994 in Oslo, the third meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists was “taken by surprise by the unexpected interest in the ‘outmoded’ theme of ecology”, Alf Hornborg reports in his 2016 book, Global Magic: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street. The Swedish academic – along with the whole field of ecological anthropology – has been on a long and rich journey in the decades since, as is evident from his evocatively titled latest book.
World systems analysis might be understood as the cultural partner to Earth systems science. Turning ...
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