On the 12th of January 2020, the World Health Organization confirmed that the “mystery virus” which, according to reports from China, had …
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, AgroParisTech, INRA § This blog post is adapted from a paper given at “Anthropology Off Earth,” Collège de France …
This Somatosphere forum features essays written in the wake of a debate held at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of …
It was my second night at the University Housing complex of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The metal frame and grid of …
What would you do for the perfect selfie? The emergence of the front-facing camera has revolutionized the way we make memories and …
A phrase from the immensely popular series, A Song of Ice and Fire, valar morghulis is translated as “all men must die,” …
Me and Mom in Portland, summer 2015 On April 20th, my 31st birthday, I traveled to Sturgis, Michigan to visit my mom. …
Following a paradigm shift from infectious to chronic disease, life expectancy rose for individuals, currently at 78.8 years of age (U.S based). The …
The theme of “living fictions” comes from a presentation I gave at a recent meeting of the EASA Anthropology of Law and …
For El Señor On January 8 I followed – along with perhaps most of the world’s population connected to the net – the coverage …
Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology Cambridge University Press, 2013, 288 pages. This essay originally appeared in Portuguese in the journal …