Hugh Raffles
Introduction Hugh Raffles at the 2011 Texas Book Fair. '''Hugh Raffles''' is a British-American anthropologist whose work explores relationships among people, animals, and things. He is Professor of Anthropology at The New School in New York. His writing has appeared in academic and popular venues, including ''Granta'', ''Public Culture'', ''Natural History'', ''Orion'', ''American Ethnologist'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The Best American Essays''.
Life Raffles grew up in London, England, and moved to New York in the early 1990s. He lives in New York City.
Awards and criticism Raffles was the recipient of the 2003 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing of the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for ''In Amazonia: A Natural History''.In 2009, Raffles was awarded a Whiting Award. In 2010, ''Insectopedia'' was the winner of the 2011 Orion Book Award and received a Special Award from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. In 2012, the book won the Ludwik Fleck Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science and was shortlisted for the De Groene Waterman Prijs, Antwerp. The book was selected by ''The New York Times'' as a Notable Book of 2010.Writing in the ''New York Times Book Review'', Philip Hoare described ''Insectopedia'' as "impossible to categorize, wildly allusive and always stimulating."
Selected writing === Articles ===* " Mother Nature's Melting Pot," ''The New York Times'', Op-Ed, April 2, 2011. * " Sweet Honey on the Block," ''The New York Times'', Op-Ed, July 7, 2010. * "A Conjoined Fate," ''Orion'' (2010). * "Cricket Fighting," ''Granta 98: The Deep End'' (Summer 2007). ** Reprinted in Adam Gopnik ed., ''The Best American Essays'' (2008). * "Jews, Lice, and History," ''Public Culture'' (2007). *  "Intimate Knowledge," ''International Social Science Journal'' (2002), reprinted in .=== Books ===* '' In Amazonia: A Natural History'', 2002, Princeton University Press, . * '' Insectopedia'', 2011, Pantheon Books, . * ''Insect Theatre'', 2013, Black Dog Books, photographs by Tim Edgar, . * ''The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time'', 2020, Pantheon Books, .
References
External links * "The Language of the Bees: An Interview with Hugh Raffles," ''Cabinet'', Issue 25, Spring 2007. * Interview with Hugh Raffles on Big Think* ''New Yorker'' blog interview with Hugh Raffles* "Are reactions to insects culturally based?" ''Universal Forum of Cultures 2010'' * New School faculty page - Hugh Raffles* Profile at The Whiting Foundation