Last will and predicament? by Bob Simpson
It was recently reported by the Guardian that there has been drop in organ donation rates in the UK.[i] It was also reported at about the same time…
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Summer Roundup: The Ethnographic Case, Part 2 by Deanna Day
In June, we debuted an extensive new series on Somatosphere, The Ethnographic Case. Edited by Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski, the series is organized on an expanding, virtual…
Rachel Smith: The “hidden abodes” of temporary migration programs
Organizations such as the World Bank have repeated what has been called the “migration development mantra.” In this, remittances appear as a panacea—or “wonder drug” (Green 2015)—for economic…
The Financialization of Ebola by Susan L. Erikson
Original Ebola Virus Image by Frederick A. Murphy/CDC; downloaded November 3, 2015. Modification to image by Lukas Henne, November 3, 2015. Far away from the frontlines of the…
Changing Tides: Celebrating Women’s Valor on Veterans Day
This Veterans Day, Americans will celebrate the sacrifice and heroism of those who served in uniform from World War I to the most recent wars in Iraq and…
An open access publishing cooperative for anthropology? by Eugene Raikhel
Last month HAU and Cultural Anthropology published a proposal for an open access anthropology publishing cooperative written by Alberto Corsín Jiménez, John Willinsky, Dominic Boyer, Giovanni da Col…
Coming soon! Samuel Rose: Marxism and mode of production in the anthropology of native North America
Patrick Neveling & Joe Trapido: Modes of production: Try again, fail better?
The mode of production (MoP) was an important term in the Marxist anthropology of the 1970s. Its origins can be traced to the diverse uses of the words…
Crossing Boundaries: Making Sense with the Sense-able by Christy Spackman
A black plastic garbage bag, held in place by masking tape, covered the drinking fountain jutting out from the brick wall. It was an incongruous sight in the…
Summer Roundup: The Ethnographic Case, Part 1 by Deanna Day
In June, we debuted an extensive new series on Somatosphere, The Ethnographic Case. Edited by Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski, the series is organized on an expanding, virtual…
Somatosphere readership survey by Eugene Raikhel
Are you a regular reader of Somatosphere who would like to help us make the site even better? Are there certain topics or issues that you’d like to…
When Research Bleeds into Real Life: Studying Reproductive Ageing while Ageing Reproductively by Carrie Friese
In a book chapter addressing feminist research methods and women’s health and healing, Rayna Rapp (1999) wrote about the complicated ways in which everyday life is embroiled in…
Conference review: MAGic 2015 Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice by Josien de Klerk
“Global Health is like a containership. The multiple actors —international and local NGOs, humanitarian organisations, scientists, activists, politicians — operate the tugboats, attempting to nu…
Summer Roundup: Inhabitable Worlds, Part Two by Deanna Day
Continuing our summer roundups, today we are highlighting a second set of essays from our Inhabitable Worlds series, brought to us by editors Michele Friedner and Emily Cohen.…
What Halloween Masks
October 31st is America’s curious anomaly. On October’s last day, as trees defoliate and nature ebbs towards the deadness of winter, parents mark the day by lifting prohibitions. …
Graphic Medicine Manifesto by Juliet McMullin
In organizing the 6th Annual Conference of Comics and Medicine, I frequently heard the refrain “Comics and medicine? What’s that? How do those two things go together?” Indeed,…
Waiting in the face of bare life by Aaron Ansell
Advocates of a more robust democratic citizenship in Brazil often point bitterly to the frequent practice of cutting ahead of others in line. Such line-cutting, they lament, indicates…
The rise of developmental science: Debates on health and humanity – A Special Issue of Social Science and Medicine by Francis Mckay
Shaping the modern child: Genealogies and ethnographies of developmental science Dominique P. Béhague, Samuel Lézé Introductory article. No abstract. Fertile bodies, immature brains?: A genealogical c…
The Americans with Disabilities Act After 25 Years – A Special Issue of Disability Studies Quarterly by Francis Mckay
Twenty-Five Years After the ADA: Situating Disability in America’s System of Stratification Michelle Maroto, David Pettinicchio Americans with disabilities represent a significant proportion of the po…