Fear and Food, Two Extremes of Human‐Insect Relations

Abstract

At the beginning of June 2018, I set o for my rst eld season in the valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, to learn more about traditional medicine involving edible insects. One day, the group of students that I was traveling with stopped at a restaurant to have comida (lunch). We were o ered an array of snacks, soups, salads, meats and a make-it-yourself tostada bar. Among the toppings o ered in the Kayla J. Hurd is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Her interests include traditional medicine, pharmaceutical design and resistance, evolutionary medicine, and the application of chemistry within medical anthropology. She will explore non-human actors (insects and micro-organisms) and their relationship with human diseases.