Reproductive Travelers
Examining the migratory pathways of a global reproductive industry. We’ve joined forces with AAA’s latest public education initiative “World on the Move: 100,000 Years of Human Migration”…
Tag: February
Racialization, Affect, and Refuge
How do we begin to grapple with the racialization of empathy? How do we capture, both ethnographically and politically, the differential allocation of sympathy, compassion, and the kind…
Seeking Refuge from Gender-Based Violence
In late 2015, the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) warned of an impending refugee flow from Central America in large part because of the threat of…
Childbirth in the Americas: Part Six
Examining Boundaries in Adolescent Birth in Mexico Adolescents as reproducers are often considered a problematic category because of their paradoxical duality as children who have babies. For women ou…
A 21st Century Update
Global Health Policy Toward Traditional Healers Introduction Much has occurred in the world of traditional medicine since the World Health Organization (WHO) first appealed for the integration of…
Childbirth in the Americas: Part Four
Humanizing Birth in Bahia, Brazil Big changes in birth care are underway in Brazil. Excessive rates of cesarean section delivery and persistently high maternal mortality have inspired a…
Sensuality and Sexual Topographies in the Middle East and North Africa
Two Lovers by Reza Abbasi, Persian miniaturist 16th century. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons A rich intellectual engagement in matters related to sexuality occupies the histories of the Middle…
Achy Breaky Heart
This Valentine’s Day Anthropology News takes an alternative look at contemporary romance. Ilana Gershon shares her reflections on relationships and breakups, based on research for her 2010 book,…
Black, Feminist and Unfunded: Advice on Fieldwork in New York City
Initially my project was about Afro-Caribbean domestics. Unfortunately I did not get funding and the summer courses I was scheduled to teach were canceled at the last minute.…
Heritage Destruction in Cholula, Mexico
Heavy machinery working next to the Guadalupe psychiatric hospital at the base of the Great Pyramid of Cholula and sanctuary to the Virgen de los Remedios. Photo courtesy…
Care Comes Home
Hydrangeas flourishing in my grandmother’s garden. Photo courtesy of Alison Witchard I have spent most of the past year thinking about and engaging with anthropological literature on care…
Does Early Intervention Promote Recovery?
Director of NIMH Leaves for Google to Develop New Technologies There is a growing trend among large companies in the private sector to join in health promotion efforts,…
Childbirth in the Americas: Part One
Rumors, Threats and C-Sections in Rural Yucatan. Veronica Miranda, U Kentucky. Series Introduction by Eliza Williamson and Mounia El Kotni. Introduction Eliza Williamson Mounia El Kotni In her…
10 Trillion Gallons of Water Should Drown China’s Yangtze Gorges World Heritage Application
The Three Gorges Dam Main Wall, 2006. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons The Yangtze River begins in the Tibetan Plateau and flows eastward into the East China Sea at Shanghai. …
Rina Sherman and the Ovahimba
Exhibit Review Rina Sherman and the head man standing at the entrance of the exhibit. Photo courtesy Rina Sherman Approach the exhibit hall of the Francois Mitterrand National…