The Vampire Pipeline: Unhealth and undevelopment in the lower Urubamba
The Vilcabamba mountain range, last holdout of the Inca empire in the 16th century, looms in the distance as a man in a cotton tunic and baseball cap…
Tag: medical anthropology
Indispensability of medical anthropology
Medical anthropology, although considered a subcategory in anthropology, has been making contributions to medicine and public health since the development of anthropology itself. The fact that anthrop…
#Podcast Interview Round Up: New Books in Anthropology – REDUX
After getting all worked up about new publications via last week’s #Reviews, we thought to indulge a bit more – by revisiting podcasts on new anthropology books all…
A stubborn conundrum
Professor Margaret Lock has published an exhaustive ethnography of Alzheimer disease research in her latest book, The Alzheimer Conundrum. I recently reviewed this book for The Australian Journal of…
Agony and Ecstasy in the Amazon: Excerpt from ‘Broad Street’
Never tell a Matsigenka shaman his tobacco snuff is anything but katsi, “extremely painful.” I learned this lesson the way I learned most of my lessons during fieldwork…
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 neat subfields— defined typi…
The Kopenawa Galaxy: Review of ‘The Falling Sky’ by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
To look across a Yanomami village on a clear night is like seeing the universe in a mirror. Above, the stars glisten like living eyes, their vision unimpeded…
Call for Managing Editor for the Anthropology of Consciousness Jounral
CALL FOR MANAGING EDITOR Anthropology of Consciousness DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: December 15, 2014 The Executive Board of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness is now inviting…
Tuberculosis: more anthropologists wanted
Nhat preparing a sample to be tested in the GeneXpert system If tuberculosis (TB) is so often described as the quintessential social disease, why aren’t more researchers in the…
Anthropology Blogs 2014
Update 2015: This is the archive page for 2014 Anthropology Blogs. Click Anthropology Blogs 2015 for a current list and see also the Anthropology Blogs 2013 and 2012…
Mobile Health in Context
Mobile Health in Context: How Information is Woven Into Our Lives @SusannahFox @PewResearch Susannah Fox from Pew Review Research put together an excellent presentation of the latest…