It is a pleasure to convene this forum for The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala. Marianne de Laet, Simon Cohn, and Jeannette Pols,…
Editor’s note: We asked several scholars which readings they would recommend to students or colleagues interested in familiarizing themselves with the anthropology of ethics and morality. This i…
Harris Solomon’s Metabolic Living traces patterns of consumption, calories, and chronic disease to tell a story about the enfolding––the absorption and regulation––of food in and about the bod…
Living Translation: Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine by Sonya E. Pritzker Berghahn Books, 2014, 228 pages By: Miao Jenny Hua Chinese medicine names…
For this installment of Top of the Heap, I was delighted to work with Assistant Professor Adia Benton from Northwestern University. I think it’s probably common for people to talk…
Domesticating Organ Transplant: Family Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico Megan Crowley-Matoka Duke University Press, 2016, 336 pages In Domesticating Organ Transplant: Family Sacrifi…
As I discussed in a previous post, works in the Material Vernaculars series are being made available in a free-to-readers PDF edition via IUScholarWorks. The eponymous edited collection Material…
I am happy to share this note to report that the edited collection Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds has now been published. I am the…
Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health by Sara Shostak University of California Press, 2013, 312 pages “Genetics loads the gun, but the…
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Paul M. Rabinow, who is a Professor of medical and sociocultural anthropology at the University…
Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics Maurizio Meloni Palgrave MacMilllan, 2016, 284 pages In Political Biology, Maurizio Meloni, one of…
The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts by Tarek Elhaik Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 198 pages Tarek Elhaik’s first book—an ethnographic examination of multi-media a…
Robert Desjarlais’s Subject to Death is like stepping onto a train already in motion. Its momentum isn’t fierce but there’s no time to ease in––from its…
[For this instalment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with medical anthropologist and Associate Professor Matthew Kohrman from Stanford University.] Summer has arrived in North…
The new Material Vernaculars series is co-published by the Mathers Museum of World Cultures with a huge amount of heavy lifting from our partner, the Indiana University Press.…
First the take away, then the story. While produced in very nice and reasonably priced hardback, paperback, and ebook editions, works in the new Material Vernaculars series are…
This fall I will be talking a lot about the new book series that the Indiana University Press and the Mathers Museum of World Cultures are jointly publishing.…
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Zoë H. Wool, who is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor at Rice University in…
Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt By Jessica Barnes 248pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag (UC Santa Cruz and Aarhus University)…
Plastic Reason: An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms by Tobias Rees University of California Press, 2016, 352 pages In the prefatory pages of Plastic Reason,…
Second Chances: Surviving AIDS in Uganda Susan Reynolds Whyte, editor Contributions by Godfrey Etyang, Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne Mogensen, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte …
Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome Sarah Richardson University of Chicago Press, 2013, 320 pages In Sex Itself: The Search for…
All In Your Head: Making Sense of Pediatric Pain by Mara Buchbinder University of California Press, 2015, 256 pages Pain has a famously intangible quality. To paraphrase…
Just started JD Taylor’s book, bought in Waterstones sociology section yesterday. Brilliant. I mean, the placing of this book in that shelving – shame its four floors up…