Insectopedia (76 page)
Hugh Raffles lives in New York City and teaches anthropology at the New School. He is the author of
In Amazonia: A Natural History
, which received the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. His essays have been published in
The Best American Essays
and
Granta.
He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award.
Copyright © 2010 by Hugh Raffles
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Portions of this book originally appeared in different form in the following: “My Nightmares” in
Anthropology Now
; “Generosity (the Happy Times)” as “Cricket Fighting” in
Granta
and in
The Best American Essays 2008
, edited by Adam Gopnik (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008); “Chernobyl” as “A Conjoined Fate” in
Orion
; and “Jews” as “Jews, Lice, and History” in
Public Culture
.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: The Hokuseido Press: “Oku no hosomichi” by Bashō Matsuo from
Haiku
by R. H. Blyth. Reprinted by permission of The Hokuseido Press. • W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: Excerpt from “Seen from Above” from
Miracle Fair
by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak, copyright © 2001 by Joanna Trzeciak. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Raffles, Hugh, [date]
Insectopedia / Hugh Raffles.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37972-6
1. Insects. 2. Human-animal relationships. I. Title.
QL
463.
R
34 2010 595.7—dc22 2009024302
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