Alex Oehler

Indigenous Peoples | Cognitive Science | Northern Issues | Anthropology | Environment | Fisheries | Forestry | Religion | Wildlife | Culture | Ethics | Sensory ethnography, Circumpolar North ethnography, human-animal relations, domestication studies, posthumanist theory, philosophical ethology, nonverbal communication, distributed cognition.

Alex Oehler is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the ethnography of the Circumpolar North region. He is principal investigator of Sensory Acts, a federally funded research project investigating nonverbal inter-species communication in Arctic communities. His background is in animal domestication and pastoral studies in Siberia, and he is the author of the Beyond Wild and Tame and other similar publications.