By Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) - repro from a book, Senckenberg Naturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9033543
Discussed in Strathern, Marilyn, Atsuro Morita, and Hugh Raffles. 2015. “BEING ONE, BEING MULTIPLE: A Future for Anthropological Relations.” NatureCulture3: 122–57.
Maria Sibylla Merian, "Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium", contributed by Grant Jun Otsuki, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 20 August 2019, accessed 23 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/metamorphosis-insectorum-surinamensium
Critical Commentary
This is an image from Metaphormosis insectorum Surinamensium (Transformation of the Surinamese insects). Marilyn Strathern discusses this image in "Being One, Being Multiple" (Strathern 2015, 127) as depicting "one life-cycle encompassing many forms," of both the plant and the insect.