Lewis Daly Email & Phone Number

I am a Lecturer in Social Anthropology of the Environment at UCL. I completed my 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, I received two Master's degrees (both with distinction) from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor's degree (with first-class honours) from UCL. I have 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, I am interested in advancing a dedicated anthropology of plants and plant-life, and have conducted research into agroecology, gardening, food practices, plant medicine, and plant use in ritual. My 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.I have conducted postdoctoral research projects and collaborations both in the UK and internationally, including with the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG) in Belém, Brazil and the Ethno-ornithology World Atlas (EWA) at the University of Oxford. I am a Guest Lecturer in Ethnobiology at the Institute of Human Sciences at the University of Oxford, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), also at Oxford.I have published in a wide range of anthropological and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals, as well as various edited volumes, academic blogs, and magazines. I am currently writing my ethnographic monograph, The Spectral Forest: A Sensory Ecology in Northern Amazonia.I am the co-founder and co-editor of TEA: The Ethnobotanical Assembly, an open-access online journal and research community dedicated to exploring people-plant relationships from a diversity of angles and perspectives.