Curative Cuisines of Cambodia
Editor’s Note: We recently published the winners of our first annual SAFN photo contest. There are, of course, interesting stories and research …
Making, Holding, and Guarding as Spatial Politics of Healing
“I wouldn’t want anyone to get attached to a space. But if, for the sake of an example, there is going to …
Upon This Break, I Build My House
[pquote]There is a way that we exist among ourselves, nestled securely into our knowing, oyster knives in hand. [/pquote]I have a quite …
Thinking with spirits by Kristine Krause
During my first visit to Ghana in 1998, I was involved in a research project that looked at possible co-operations between healers …
Book Forum: Larisa Jašarević’s Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market by Larisa Kurtović
In Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: An Intimate Debt, Larisa Jašarević explores the mutual entanglement between the economy, living …
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 …
Medical anthropology, relatedness, and analytical cannibalism
Despite Hiedegger’s revolutionary claim that it is not possible to escape existence and find a view of the world from nowhere,we continue to divide anthropology into …
From the Amazon to Australia: A Dumontian analysis of ayahuasca healing
The psychoactive beverage ayahuasca is used differently in Australia compared to in its homeland of indigenous Amazonia. The simplicity of this statement is …
Insects of healing and malady in Australian ayahuasca visions
Yesterday I took my copy of William James’ Varieties off the shelf to read more about his notion of radical empiricism …