Women are having a moment. At President Trump’s State of the Union address, Democratic women wore white as a nod to suffragists and female leadership, and Nancy Pelosi’s backclap went…
Il convient plutot de s’attacher à ce que signifie ȇtre un homme, avant de problématiser la folie en terms de santé et maladie, Ludwig Binswanger, Le Rȇve et…
Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures T.M. Luhrmann and Jocelyn Marrow, editors University of California Press, 2016, 304 pages A key premise of…
Extraordinary Conditions: Culture and Experience in Mental Illness Janis H. Jenkins University of California Press, 2015, 343 pages It has been a privilege, through reading Extraordinary Conditions, t…
Introduction When I began my graphic memoir series, Aliceheimers, it focused just on life with my mother Alice before and during dementia. But the revelatory insight that she…
addicted.pregnant.poor By Kelly Ray Knight Duke University Press, 2015, 328 pages addicted.pregnant.poor is the sort of ethnography you start reading and don’t put down again until it’s finished. …
Fertile Disorder: Spirit Possession and its Provocation of the Modern by Kalpana Ram University of Hawaii Press, 2013, 336 pages Spirit possession is a familiar anthropological interest. But…