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Biography

My research interests span environmental anthropology and the anthropology of religion, and I carry out fieldwork in the UK and Mongolia.

In my recent projects I have examined land use change, energy transitions, and the way that people learn about (and evade) environmental risk. Out of this has grown an interest in the disjuncture between human rhythms and the deep time of geological processes, which I explore in my book An Anthropology of Deep Time (Cambridge University Press, 2020). At what temporal resolution should we view human activity? In order to understand the processes of change that shape the landforms under our feet and the resources upon which we depend, we need to think beyond the short-term time-horizons of rapid economic transactions and electoral cycles – the days, months, and years of biographical time. Yet, if we attempt to place human activity against the backdrop of the vast and gradual time-scale of Earth’s geological history, the temporal span of a life seems almost insignificant. How can we expand the time-depth of our understanding, recognising the long-term ecological and geological processes that are the conditions of our existence, while remaining sensitive to the temporality of human experience? 

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BEST, Richard Irvine (1872–1959)

Ag 3 Sráid Bishop, Doire, a rugadh é ar 17 Eanáir 1872. Henry Best, oifigeach máil a bhí ag obair in Paisley na hAlban ag an am a athair. Margaret Jane Irvine a mháthair. I ndiaidh scolaíochta i gColáiste Foyle fuair sé post cléirigh i mbanc i Londain. Tá sé spéisiúil gur chuir iar-phríomhoide Choláiste Foyle, Maurice C. Hime, meamram faoi bhráid an Choimisiúin um Oideachas Meánach a thacaigh go láidir le teagasc na Gaeilge sna meánscoileanna (i gcló in An Claidheamh Soluis 26 Bealtaine 1900). Seans gurbh é Hime a spreag spéis Best i léann na teanga Gaeilge an chéad lá. Ach i gceann tamaill fuair sé le huacht beagán airgid a lig dó dul go Páras. I bPáras thug J. M. Synge é chun léachtanna d’Arbois de Jubainville i dtaobh na Sean-Ghaeilge. D’aistrigh sé leabhar an scoláire sin, Le cycle mythologique Irlandais et la mythologie Celtique, go Béarla in 1903 (bhí sé á shrathú san United Irishman sular foilsíodh mar leabhar é). Ar ais i mBaile Átha Cliath dó sa bhliain chéanna casadh Kuno Meyer air. Best a thug air Scoil Ard-Léinn na Gaeilge a bhunú. Bhí sé ina rúnaí agus ina eagraí ginearálta, agus ina mhac léinn féin go minic, ó thosach deireadh na Scoile (1903–1924). Chaith sé tamall den tréimhse sin ina eagarthóir ar iris na Scoile Ériu.

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