Front and Back Covers, Volume 39, Number 2. April 2022

Anthropology TodayVolume 39, Issue 2 p. i-ii InformationFree Access Front and Back Covers, Volume Number 2. April 2022 First published: 01 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12717AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I have read accept the Wiley Online Library UseShareable LinkUse link a this article with your friends colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Abstract back cover caption, volume 39 issue POLYCRISIS: FROM DIVINE INTERVENTION TO HUMAN AGENCY The front image is Thanatos (Death), fourth horseman apocalypse, astride pale steed followed by Hades (as depicted Gustave Doré in 1868). It serves as haunting reminder crisis understood religious terms. In Christian theology, Four Horsemen were given divine authority kill sword, famine, plague through beast; four original strands polycrisis (Revelation 6:7-8). Other eschatological traditions speak entangled immorality, meteorological phenomena, geological violence coming messianic saviours before End Time. As world faces an unprecedented era interrelated overlapping crises, we increasingly place human agency at centre explanations. Yet need understand their underlying power dynamics complexity better. This collection articles invites us examine how certain events trigger deliberation critique what constitutes whether can still identify cause effect interconnected world. From socioeconomic forces ecological thought coexistence intervention, contributors explore markets, solidarity, faith future planning shape responses unexpected spiralling out control. We shift from ‘crisis-chasing’ evident over last two decades meaningful emergent multiscalar events. interrogate usefulness developing paradigm better endless crises afflicting planet today. BEES IN CRISIS March 2023, northeastern Bosnia. A bee forager seeks Pink Pussy Willow, early spring bloomer whose catkins offer up generous supply pollen, fuelling hive's development. For honeybees, who rely on environmental signs, such temperature, ascertain seasons sync nest affairs cyclical rhythms local weather patterns, soils plants, willow catkin blossoms signal beginning new foraging year. Yet, changing climate, unhinged seasons, ambient cues are ambiguous untimely. Plants, life cycles likewise synced cues, interpret atmosphere respond vigorous physiological changes. Warming temperatures precipitation regimes Northern Hemisphere induce shorter milder winters, earlier dates greening later browning autumn. Such changes recorded satellite imaging readily lay observers. How exactly plants companion insects will unknown. Biologists know that climate extreme be idiosyncratic because ‘biodiversity’, living difference, entails differentiation signage meaning emergency. thing do now attend these ontologically plural, interspecies signs times methods theories open unintimidated either ominous or quality share. presents joint endeavour thinking about ethnographic concept embodied, existential experience discomfort which begin earnest response. Volume39, Issue2April 2023Pages RelatedInformation