
Biographical Information
RAFFLES, Hugh
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair, Department of Anthropology, The New School. He is the author of In Amazonia: A Natural History (2002; Co-Winner, 2003 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology), ”Cricket Fighting,” Granta (2007), “The Uses of Butterfiles,” American Ethnologist (2001), and numerous other papers. He is conducting new research on Amazonian insects.