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S4E2 - Interview with Dr. Kawa (Cultural Anthropology)

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Doctor Cawell, You're an Environmental Anthropologist

When i was an undergrad at the university of arizona, knew i was really interested in environmental questions as an anthropologist. And so i found a teaching programme that allowed me to teach in brazil. And where i was placed was in the city of manaus, which is the largest city in the bBrazilian amazon. When i arrived there, i was really taken aback, because i think all my images of the amazon growing up, from what i had seen in television and film, was of this overwhelming jungleor pristine forest. So thinking about how people in amazonia had managed soils that improved their fertility because of composting and various forms of management of organic waste

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