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Dr Lewis Daly

Lecturer in Social Anthropology of the Environment

Office: Room 140, UCL Anthropology

Email: l.daly@ucl.ac.uk

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  • DPhil in Anthropology, University of Oxford (2015)
  • ESRC 1+3 PhD Studentship (ES/I903887/1) (2010鈥�14)
  • MSc in Anthropological Research Methods, University of Oxford (2011)
  • MSc in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford (2009)
  • BSc in Anthropology, University College London (2007)

Biography

Lewis Daly is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology of the Environment at 皇家华人. He completed his doctorate (DPhil) in Anthropology at the University of Oxford in 2015, funded by an ESRC PhD Studentship, which investigated indigenous ecological knowledge and practices in the savannahs and rainforests of northern Amazonia. Prior to this, he received two Master's degrees (both with distinction) from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor's degree (with first-class honours) from UCL. He has been conducting long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Makushi communities in southern Guyana and northern Brazil since 2010, focusing primarily on more-than-human engagements in the indigenous society, culture, and cosmology. In particular, Lewis is interested in advancing a dedicated anthropology of plants and plant-life, and has conducted research into agroecology, gardening, food practices, plant medicine,听and plant use in ritual. His research is framed by an appraisal of the impact of conservation, ecotourism, and sustainable development interventions on Indigenous lifeways and environmental practices in Amazonia today.

Lewis has conducted postdoctoral research projects and collaborations both in the UK and internationally, including听with the Museu Paraense Em铆lio Goeldi (MPEG) in Bel茅m, Brazil听and the at the University of Oxford.听He is a Guest Lecturer in Ethnobiology at the at the University of Oxford, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the , also at Oxford.

Lewis is the co-founder and co-editor of , an open-access online journal and research community dedicated to exploring people-plant relationships from a diversity of angles and perspectives.

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of Amazonia, lowland South America, and Latin America
  • Animism, perspectivism, shamanism, ontology, cosmology
  • Multispecies ethnography in the Anthropocene
  • Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous rights
  • Historical ecology of tropical rainforests
  • Anthropology of plants,听ethnobotany,听phytoethnography
  • Anthropology of birds,听birding, ethno-ornithology
  • Agriculture, food processing, and fermentation technologies
  • Sensory ecology (chemosensation, olfaction, taste, bioacoustics)
  • The politics of conservation, ecotourism, and sustainable development
  • Oil development and extractive frontiers in Latin America and the Caribbean

Recent Publications

Lewis has published in a wide range of anthropological and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals,听as well as various edited volumes, academic blogs, and magazines.听He is currently writing his ethnographic monograph,听The Spectral Forest:听A Sensory Ecology in Northern Amazonia.

  • Daly, L. (2025) Phyto-Frictions: Beyond Bioculturality in Indigenous Amazonia. Nuevo Mundo, Mundos Nuevos (in preparation).
  • Daly, L. (2025) Cotton Tigers and Underwater Anteaters: Multispecies Relating in Subaquatic Worlds. In听Multispecies Aesthetics: Iconography, Affect, Indigenous Knowledge, and Ontology in Other-than-Human Worlds.听A. Motta and A. Jones (eds.) Routledge (in preparation).
  • Daly, L. (2024)听The Walking Palm: Plaiting Baskets and Weaving Webs in Amazonia.听笔丑颈濒辞蝉辞辫丑颈别蝉听(颈苍听辫谤别辫补谤补迟颈辞苍).
  • Daly, L. (2024) The Swordfish Tree: Plant Poeisis in Makushi Panton.听贵辞濒办濒辞谤别听(in preparation).
  • Daly, L. (2024) 鈥淭he Spirits Drink Cassava Beer鈥�: Self-Care, Communal Work, and More-than-Human Ethics in Amazonia.听Medical Anthropology (under review).
  • Daly, L. and G.H. Shepard Jr. (2024) Toxicity and Plant Animacy听in Amazonia: Cosmology, Chemosensation, and Ecosemiotics.听Journal of Ethnobiology听(in press).
  • Whitaker, J.A., V. Tamboli, L. Daly, and M. Lewy (2024) Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy.听Journal of Ethnobiology (in press).
  • Daly, L. (2024) The Living Gift: Cultivating Landscapes of Memory in Indigenous Amazonia. In . O. Ang茅 and D. Nally (eds.) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press听(in press).
  • Daly, L. (2024) . In . L. Stafford (ed.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Shepard Jr., G.H. and L. Daly (2023) .听Topics in Cognitive Science 15(3): 584鈥�607.
  • Marchini, S., A.R. Cummings, B.M. Arisi, C. Argudin-Violante, F. S眉ssekind, G.H. Shepard Jr., L. Daly, L.J. Bordones, L. Guiata, and M. Arias (2022)听.听Oryx听56(2): 5鈥�6.
  • Shepard Jr., G.H. and L. Daly (2022)听.听Botany 100(2): 83鈥�96.
  • Daly, L. (2021)听听Anthropological Forum 34(4): 377鈥�395.
  • Gibbon, S., L. Daly, A. Parkhurst, C. Ryan, G.D. Salali, and A. Tasker (2020) .听Medical Anthropology at 皇家华人, 29 April 2020.
  • Daly, L. and G.H. Shepard Jr. (2019)听.听Anthropology Today 35(2): 13鈥�18.
  • Daly, L. (2019) The Nature of Sweetness: An Indigenous Fermentation Complex in Amazonian Guyana. In . K. Hockings and R. Dunbar (eds.) Pp. 130鈥�146. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Daly, L. and K. Lewis-Jones (2018)听.听TEA: The Ethnobotanical Assembly, Issue 1: Winter 2018.
  • Daly, L., L. Nic听Eoin, K.听French, and T.听Miller (2016)听.听Journal of Ethnobiology 36(1): 1鈥�9.
  • Van Andel, T., S. Ruysschaert, K. Boven, and L. Daly (2015)听.听Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine听11: 66.
  • Daly, L. (2015)听.听Engagement, 8 December 2015.

Teaching

Lewis has taught across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Social and Environmental Anthropology, including:

Lewis听is currently the Programme Director for the听MRes in Anthropology Master's degree (2023鈥�).听He convened our flagship undergraduate module ANTH0003: Introduction to Social Anthropology from 2019鈥�24, as well as听our second-year core module ANTH0015: Being Human from 2018鈥�20.

Teaching Awards

| Nominations:

  • 2023听 鈱蔡� Inspiring Teaching Delivery
  • 2019听 鈱蔡� Outstanding Feedback
  • 2018听 鈱蔡� Outstanding Feedback
  • 2017听 鈱蔡� Outstanding Teaching

PhD Supervision

Lewis's current PhD students are the following:

  • Roy Ashton 鈱蔡鼿ow Does the Forest Speak? Tracking and Sensory Awareness among Forest-Dwelling Hunter-Gatherer Peoples (2022鈥�)
  • Catherine Clarke 鈱蔡鼵onservation Politics and Indigenous Rights in the Colombian Amazon: The Negotiation and Implementation of Area-Based Conservation Targets (2021鈥�)
  • Bo Yang 鈱蔡齋ymbiotic Species, Symbiotic Relationships: Pursuing More-than-Human Liveability on the Tibetan Plateau (2021鈥�)
  • Jack Jenkins-Hill 鈱蔡齌he Making, Remaking, and Unmaking of Tanintharyi Region's Revolutionary Forest, Myanmar听(2020鈥�)
  • Sahib Singh 鈱蔡齌he Reluctant Forest: Resource Extraction, Dispossession, Resistance, and听Ontological Conflicts in Central India (2020鈥�)
  • Sonia Dhandha 鈱蔡鼵onservation Prioritisation of Wild Orchids in International Trade (2020鈥�)
  • Matthew French 鈱蔡鼶rift听Kelp and Multe Gold: Contemporary Human Foraging Amongst Edible Seaweed and Berries in Ireland and Norway (2020鈥�)
  • Sarah Fischel 鈱蔡齅ultispecies Care and Coral Restoration in Bonaire, the Leeward Antilles (2019鈥�)
  • Juan Mej铆a Lopez 鈱蔡齊eserves, Fishermen, NGOs, and Blue Crabs: The Multiple Makings of Guaimoreto Lagoon in Northern Honduras ( 2020鈥�24)
  • Juli谩n Riveros Clavijo 鈱蔡鼳 Tale of Development and Migration: An Ethnography of Pacific African-Colombian Migrants in Antofagasta, Chile (2019鈥�24)
  • Alice Vittoria 鈱蔡齋haring the Forest: Bayaka Mobility and Dwelling in a More-than-Human Landscape in the Congo听(2018鈥�24)

Research Positions, Groups,听and听Collaborations

  • Guest Lecturer in Ethnobiology, , University of Oxford
  • Visiting Scholar and Research Associate, , University of Oxford
  • Member,听Human Ecology Research Group (HERG), UCL
  • Founding听member and co-editor,听
  • The Sensory Ecology of Shamanic Plants in Indigenous Amazonia 鈥� , Bel茅m, Brazil
  • The Role听of Local Bird Knowledge in Avian Conservation 鈥� , University of Oxford and

Editorial Roles

  • Co-founder and co-editor 听, open-access online magazine about people-plant relationships
  • Editor-in-chief (2016鈥�2023) 鈥� , annual magazine and blog of UCL Anthropology
  • Editorial board member 鈥�
  • Advisory board member 鈥� , Lexington Books
  • Guest editor 鈥� , Special Issue of the Journal of Ethnobiology, 2016, 36(1): 1鈥�149.

Conference and Workshop Organisation

  • 2024听鈱� Rights of Nature Workshop with听Paul Powlesland, UCL Anthropology
  • 2017 鈱蔡�, Centre for Biocultural Diversity (CBCD), School of Anthropology and Conservation,听University of Kent
  • 2014 鈱蔡�, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford

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