In the Journals – June 2017, part one by Aaron Seaman
Anthropology and Aging (open access) The Social Context of Collective Physical Training among Chinese Elderly: An Anthropological Case Study in a Park in Beijing Yeori Park This study…
Tag: Features
What’s At Stake in Speculation? by Matthew Wolf-Meyer
We’ve long been thinking about health, well-being, illness, sickness, and disease, in relation to risk. That things might not be maintained at their present levels, either individually, among…
The Impossibility of the Inert: Placebo and the Essence of Healing by Thomas J. Csordas
The concept of placebo is predicated on the opposition between active and inert, deploying this opposition to assert that an action or substance with no inherent active principle…
Stakes of Life: Science, states, policies, publics and ‘the first thousand days’ by Fiona C. Ross
Welcome back to the “First Thousand Days of Life” Somatosphere series. Here we continue to explore the ways that a global health initiative driven by new findings in…
Making the theoretical practical: Engaging undergraduate students in research methods by Hannah Mohammad
I am currently an undergraduate student in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London. The Department’s UG program offers students the opportunity to…
Book Forum–Elizabeth A. Wilson’s Gut Feminism by Alexandra Sarkozy
Elizabeth Wilson’s Gut Feminism revisits feminism’s traditionally antagonistic engagement with biology with a call to reposition the body in feminist thought. As Wilson critically explores relationsh…
Patrick Neveling: “Vote like humans”: Elections in a posthuman political economy
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (SOAS, University of London). As I left Bournemouth train station…
Michael Jennings: UK Election 2017 manifestos and international development: Common ground and clear water
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bern). With the election coming up today, I…
John Gledhill: It’s Corbyn’s critics who need the history lesson
This post is part of a feature on the 2017 UK elections, moderated and edited by Patrick Neveling (University of Bern). In his very carefully argued speech of…
How do you raise a child? Insights from a World of Babies
How do you raise a child? Ask any mother, and she’ll offer a long list of things you should do–and shouldn’t do. Not only will three mothers share…
From Harry Potter to Jesus – A transfigurative conference report by Laura Perler
Credit: Transcultural Studies, University of St. Gallen Conference report on the anniversary conference: ‘Transfigurationen: Medizin macht Gesellschaft macht Medizin’, 17-18 February 2017, organised…
‘Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us’ / a conversation with Lochlann Jain by Tara Mahfoud
In the Stanford Hospital car park, there is a sign that reads “WARNING: This garage contains gasoline and diesel engine exhaust which is known to the State of…
Subjectivity After the Subject by Sadeq Rahimi
One: Whither The Subject? It has been exactly 8 years since I wrote the introductory installment of a mini-series on political subjectivity for Somatosphere. When I wrote on…
Teaching Medical Anthropology by Ari Gandsman
In the decade since becoming a full time professor, medical anthropology has been one of my core courses. I have taught it seven times. Although the basic structure…
The ethnographic case: series conclusion by Emily Yates-Doerr
This entry concludes the series “The Ethnographic Case” which ran every other Monday between June 2015 and July 2016. The bookCase, which holds 27 cases, can be accessed…
Cris Shore: What is a European?: Solidarity, symbols, and the politics of exclusion
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). Earlier this…
Michal Buchowski: Our coveted Europe
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). Today’s…
Don Kalb: The EU at 60: the Treaty of Rome is a smoke screen
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). The…
Chris Hann: Beleaguered pseudocontinent: Happy birthday, Europe!
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). Sixty…
Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Norway and the transformation of the EU
This post is part of a feature on anthropologists on the EU at 60, moderated and edited by Don Kalb (Central European University and University of Bergen). In…
#SoComplicatedSyllabus – Check it out and please contribute! by Deborah Levine
“I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject…Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,” said Donald J. Trump on Monday, February 27, at a…
In the Journals: February 2017 by Christine Sargent
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…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus, Week 21: Maurice Magaña on Seeing Race and Citizenship in the U.S. through Ava Duvernay’s 13th
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical exercise addressin…
Biofinance: Speculation, Risk, Debt, and Value from Bios: A conference report by Danya Glabau
How does the financialization of life itself figure as a new means of producing value in modern technoscience? That is the question that motivated Kirk Fiereck to convene…