On be(e)ing human: An ethnography of human-bee relations in the districts of Kigoma and Liwale in Tanzania.

This project assesses the cultural significance of bees and how this is transformed through commercialisation in Tanzania from an anthropological perspective. Using the approach of multispecies ethnography, this research approaches ‘human-bee relations’ as co-constitutive interactions. This integrated perspective challenges the Western culture-nature dichotomy, offering a new interpretation of East African cultural dynamics that acknowledging the formative influence of ecological relations.