Call for Contributors: In the Journals by Anna Zogas
Somatosphere is looking to recruit 3-4 people to assist with our ongoing “In the Journals” feature. “In the Journals” is a monthly roundup of newly-published journal articles. Below,…
Somatosphere is looking to recruit 3-4 people to assist with our ongoing “In the Journals” feature. “In the Journals” is a monthly roundup of newly-published journal articles. Below,…
Here is the December In the Journals. Among the highlights is a special issue of BioSocieties on Cancer in the Global South. Enjoy! American Anthropologist Shouldering Moral Responsibility:…
October’s issue of Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness is a themed issue, edited by Alejandro Cerón & Jessica Jerome. The articles are “Ethnographic Exp…
Here are some highlights from journals with new issues published in October. Enjoy! Annual Review of Anthropology Physician Anthropologists Claire L. Wendland Physician anthropologists have…
Below you may find this month’s “In the Journals” updates. American Anthropologist Toward an Integrated Anthropology of Infant SleepHelen L. Bell, Cecilia Tomori & James J. …
A short round up this month. This month’s collection will be most valuable for those interested in topics such as: childbirth, immigration and health, disability and Disability Studies,…
The July 2019 issue of Science, Technology & Human Values has a special issue, titled “Emerging Biotechnologies and the Reconfiguration of Mental Health”. The Death of the Clinic?…
I think this month’s articles would be of specific interest for looking to read on topics of risk and health, the politics of standardized evidence, boundaries of science…
Here are a selection of articles from June. The topics include issues of translation in social studies of medicine, access to health care, and many others. American Anthropologist…
Welcome back to In the Journals, a brief look at just a few articles that have been published in previous months on policing, law, and governance. These readings…
Here is the journal round-up for May! A very interesting batch of articles this month, including the very timely section in Cultural Anthropology on Reproductive Rights in the…
The March 2019 issue of Ethos, organized by Neely Myers and Kristin E. Yarris, focuses on “Extraordinary Conditions, Global Psychiatric Care, and Moral Subjectivity.” The collection close…
From: Diane M. Nelson, “Low Intensities,” Current Anthropology 60, no. S19 (February 2019): S122-S133. Welcome back to In the Journals, a brief look at just a few…
Here are some highlights from the journals in March 2019, including a special issue of Medical Anthropology dedicated to Human Animal Health in Medical Anthropology. Enjoy! American Anthropologist…
The History of Anthropology Newsletter has published a Special Focus section on Canguilhem’s “The Living and Its Milieu” (1952). The section includes six open access essays, and here…
Here are some highlights from the journals in February 2019. Enjoy! Cultural Anthropology (Open Access) Cultural Anthropology brings us multiple articles of interest, plus a collection of essays on…
The January roundup from the journals. Happy Reading! Body & Society Why Kinesthesia, Tactility and Affectivity Matter: Critical and Constructive Perspectives Maxine Sheets-Johnstone This article …
The December 2018 issue of Anthropology of Work Review is a special issue titled, “An Injury to One is an Injury to All: Immigrant Workers, Structural Vulnerability, and Occupational Injury.R…
The December 2018 issue of BioSocieties is a collection on epigenetics. Here are the abstracts. Enjoy! Situating the biosocial: Empirical engagements with environmental epigenetics from the lab to the…
From: Papachristos, A. V., Brazil, N. and Cheng, T. (2018), Understanding the Crime Gap: Violence and Inequality in an American City. City & Community, 17: 1051-1074. doi:10.1111/cico.12348 …
From the journals in December 2018, here’s some new reading for the first days of the new year. Enjoy! Medicine Anthropology Theory (Open Access) But are they actually…
Here are some highlights from last month’s journals. Enjoy! American Ethnologist Contractual dependencies: Disability and the bureaucracy of begging in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (op…
Late but still lively: it’s October’s installation of In the Journals. Annual Review of Anthropology Ethics in Human Biology: A Historical Perspective on Present Challenges Joanna Radin Th…
Map of Downtown Vancouver, taken from Fast, Danya, and David Cunningham. ““We Don’t Belong There”: New Geographies of Homelessness, Addiction, and Social Control in Vancouver’s Inner City.”…