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Show for Apr 11, 2010. Hugh Raffles: Insectopedia
Anthropologist Hugh Raffles wanted to write about animal-human relationships, but he didn’t want to go the easy route. No dogs, kitties or horses here. Just insects, or rather, a set of dispatches from the man-bug boundary. In this interview, Hugh talks about Japanese insect boys, Chinese fighting crickets, entomological epistemology, insect music, crush freaks, insect nightmares and more.
And here’s some insect music from Mirah and Spectratone International. It was inspired by Jean-Henri Fabre, 19th-century naturalist and insectophile described in Hugh’s Insectopedia and in our interview:
