“Puttin’ Eyes on a Horse”
Horsemanship Attunements and the Merry-Go-Round of Kentucky’s Thoroughbred Racing Industry.
This article examines how middling Thoroughbred trainers in Kentucky learn, experience, and practice the embodied tradition of horsemanship within the economically constricting and ethically fraught American horse racing industry.
Barnes, Carolyn. 2021. Anthropological Quarterly 94(2): 225-254. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2021.0001
Kentucky Kindling
Stoking Swidden Anthropology with Fire-play on the Family Farm
This is a story about my family and “the farm.” Drawing on experimental ethnography and Southern gothic literature, it taps into and troubles the life and verve of real and imagined rural Kentucky, and more broadly, the gyrating heats, horrors, and hypocrisies of contemporary America and American anthropology. How it was and is, and how it all coulda been different.
Barnes, Carolyn. 2021. Anthropology and Humanism 46 (2): 279-299. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12340
Animal Agriculture
On Alex Blanchette’s Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm.
A creative long-form book review essay co-authored with Peter Benson.
Barnes, Carolyn and Peter Benson. 2020. Anthropological Quarterly 93 (4): 777-788. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2020.0061
COVID-19 & Conservation
Staff perceptions of COVID-19 impacts on wildlife conservation at a zoological institution
Co-published with my former student and advisee, Leah Fine, as well as Amy Niedbalski and Sharon Deem from the Saint Louis Zoo, this research outlines how the pandemic has reshaped the challenges and priorities of zoological conservation.
Fine, L., C. Barnes, A. Niedbalski, and S. Deem. 2022. Zoo Biology 41: 234-243. https://doi.org/10.1002/zoo.21669
