Staying with the Truffle: Tracking Landscape Relations in the Kalahari Desert after “Man the Hunter” (Yale Agrarian Studies)

Pierre Du Plessis is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Centre for Environmental Humanities at Aarhus University. His dissertation project, entitled “Vegetal Gatherings: Plants, Fungi, and People through the Kalahari,” explores the liveliness of Kalahari Desert landscapes through an attention to the Kalahari Desert Truffle and its plant symbionts, and contemporary practices of gathering these organisms.

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