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…
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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…