Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Insectopedia

Do things with too many legs, such as this desert centipede, make you nervous? NPS photo.

Locusts can be an agricultural plague -- or a tasty snack. We are fascinated by them, frightened by them, and can't live without them -- sometimes all at the same time. In this segment, Ira talks with author and anthropologist Hugh Raffles about people, insects, and the relationships between them. It's the topic of Raffles' new book 'Insectopedia.'

Guests

Hugh Raffles
Author, "Insectopedia," (Pantheon Books, 2010)
Professor of Anthropology
The New School
New York, New York

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Insectopedia

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Segment produced by:Flora Lichtman

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