Author: Alice Rudge

Alice Rudge is a Junior Research Fellow at University College London, where she also received her PhD in Anthropology. She is interested in the ways that speech practices and sensory perception shape interspecies dynamics. She has been working with the Batek since 2014, and conducts regular long-term fieldwork with them. She has published in American Ethnologist, Hunter-Gatherer Research, and Ethnomusicology Forum, alongside writing for The Guardian.

Alice Rudge

Don’t make me laugh: How getting it wrong shapes interspecies entanglements in the Batek’s forest

September, 2020 / By Alice Rudge

“yeʔ kan plŋal!” “lawac!” “hɛy yeʔ leh!” “Don’t laugh!”, “It’s taboo!”, “We shouldn’t!” Naʔ Srimjam kept admonishing us one afternoon […]