“Why is this a book?” The student who volunteered this question during a class discussion could not have known how meaningful – and unsettling – I found the…
Umm Adnan,[i] like many women I met during my research on Down Syndrome and kinship in Jordan, was extremely protective of her son Adnan. The youngest of four,…
Hi folks! Without further ado, the second half of September’s installment: Medical Anthropology Quarterly Normal, Regular, and Standard: Scaling the Body through Fecal Microbial Transplants Mat…
Hi everyone! September was full of publications, so we’ll take last month in two parts. American Anthropologist “The Campesino Was Born for the Campo”: A Multispecies Approach to Territorial Pe…
American Ethnologist Good ramps, bad ramps: Centralized design standards and disability access in urban Russian infrastructure Cassandra Hartblay Accessible design seeks to reconfigure the social by r…
Hello trusty readers. Check out November’s haul for “In The Journals,” and be sure to check out the special issue of Science, Technology, and Human Values: Feminist Postcolonial Tech…
Hello everyone! Please check out our roundup for the second half of the month. Also, the current issue of Hau has a symposium on Webb Keane’s Ethical Life: Its…
Check out the first instalment of this month’s In the Journals! Critical public health Global mental health and its critics: moving beyond the impasse (open access) Sara Cooper…