Encased: Plotting Attentions through Distraction by Melissa Biggs
Cases set boundaries; cases draw you in. Often imagined as they appear in traditional museums – archipelagos of order in ordered spaces with carefully placed markers for larger…
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Bomb Ecologies? Inhabiting Disability in Postconflict Laos by Leah Zani
I am an anthropologist researching postwar revival and development in Lao PDR (Laos), the most cluster-bombed country in the world (Branfman 2013). Through fieldwork with development organizations an…
Autophony: Listening to your eyes move by Anna Harris
This post is part of our new series, The Ethnographic Case. One doctor, seven medical students and an anthropologist crowd into the patient’s very small hospital room. The doctor…
Creating Methods that Speak Across Disciplines in Medical Anthropology by Emily Mendenhall
María and I finished our three hours together with a blood spot and a hug. It was an extra long hug, and I couldn’t be sure if it…
Creating In/Abilities for Eating by Dikaios Sakellariou
I am lying in bed. It is 4 am. The TV is flickering. I am listening for it, I am waiting for it. Next to me a gentle…
Ethics (etc) in a box: How a disinfectant spray became my friend and ally by Courtney Addison
Fieldnotes The box is white, and adorned with a rectangular red button about half the size of my palm. White is clean, sterile, new. Red is alarm, is…
Towards Neuro-Social Science: The Politics and Pragmatics of Collaboration by Tara Mahfoud
Workshop Report: King’s College London, 11 December 2014 Introduction Different forms of exchange between neuroscientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars have been emerging, and these have…
Exemplary: The case of the farmer and the turpentine by Annemarie Mol
This post is part of our new series, The Ethnographic Case. In 1976, when I was eighteen and he was eighty-four, my grandfather told me the case of the…
3rd Cascadia Seminar, “Ethnographic Adventures in Medical Anthropology”: Conference Brief by Nadine Levin
On Friday, April 24, more than 50 attendees gathered to hear the keynote—and kick off a weekend of stimulating talks and discussion—for the 3rd Cascadia Seminar, “Ethnographic Adventures…
The bookCASE: Introduction by Emily Yates-Doerr
This post is an introduction to our new series, The Ethnographic Case. We launch this series with a question: What is an ethnographic case? As ethnography is a…
Tim Anderson: Theorizing the social musician
Capital’s resilience as technologies and cultures change lies in the systematic priority placed on value development and extraction. However, this does not imply that actors in these systems…
Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan: Copyright, capitalism, and a postcolonial critique of Karnatic music
Karnatic music, or South Indian classical music, is understood as “religious” music, deemed to be “divinely inspired,” and performers are seen as embodying the divine. Because of its…