What am I reading in ScholarWorks? June 2023

Jessica Ryan, Scholarly Communications Librarian, highlights an item in ScholarWorks each month.

As we head into the hot summer months, climate change and its effects are increasingly on my mind. For this month’s What Am I Reading in ScholarWorks? selection, I bring you an expansive article, “African Environmental Change from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene,” from Anthropology professor, Colin Hoag. The article states, “Africa is a place of incredible innovation in the face of contingency and adversity, a place where novel social and ecological arrangements are forged. As such, Africa stands at the forefront of thinking about Anthropocene conditions, strategies, and possibilities.” The maps included in the article visually conjure changes over time with a succinct power of elucidation. This article has been cited twenty-five times and has over a thousand usage metrics. Clearly, what I am reading is what many others are reading too.

To read this work in Smith ScholarWorks, visit: https://scholarworks.smith.edu/ant_facpubs/1/

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