Mapping the world?
At anthro everywhere! we’ve already written a couple of posts about how maps powerfully represent certain social realities. Today’s post adds a couple of new resources for teaching…
Tag: Science
Postmodernism Comes to America
Fake News and the End of Facts I recently had the pleasure (?) of engaging in a fruitless debate on social media with a friend of a friend.…
Genetics, Race, and the Practice of Science, Part Two
On how human genetics is biopolitical. Earlier this year Jonathan Marks and I sat down at the University of Notre Dame for a conversation about his recent books,…
Of Quinoa, Agricultural Science, and Social Change – New Essay from Adam Gamwell on the Savage Minds Anthropologies Projects
Photo: Colin Stone Peacock TAL’s Adam Gamwell has a new essay about his research on quinoa biodiversity in Peru out on Savage Minds blog! Excerpt: Specters of the…
Genetics, Race, and the Practice of Science, Part One
On how the humanities help us think critically about science. Jonathan Marks and I have a lot in common (despite the fact that I am a Christian feminist…
Don’t Panic! The Neuroscience behind falling into Balance w/ Vivek Pandey Vimal
Are balance and movement something that can be culturally shaped? Why aren’t female rats being used in drug studies? In this episode of This Anthropological Life we team…
An Open Letter to My Children
Dear Nathaniel and Hannah, I am sorry that my generation has failed you. We have bequeathed you a world that has too many problems, too much fear, and too much…
How gender changes our jobs
One of the things I love about teaching anthropology is thinking about and showing how — through everyday experiences — broad processes shape local lives. I think that…
How gender changes our jobs
One of the things I love about teaching anthropology is thinking about and showing how — through everyday experiences — broad processes shape local lives. I think that…
On Solidarity and Molecules (#MakeMuskratRight)
Deferring to molecules rather than social movements when it comes to contamination is a case of power relations.
Census Data and the Social Construction of Race
Since Franz Boas, anthropologists have argued that race is not a biological but a social fact that varies across time and place. Using the US Census, Vox underscores…
A Little Social Science Cheerleading
In case anyone anywhere is looking for reasons why social scientists are needed in a societal sense or are arguing for the value of their degree, check out…
Valuing Aboriginal cultural knowledge in Western science
The relationship between Western science (scientists, government officials, etc.) and Aboriginal knowledge has often been rocky, with Westerners often only acknowledging the value of local indigenous …
The CRISPR Hack: Better, Faster, Stronger
Genetic testing technologies, which enable parents to create multiple embryos and then select the “best” for implantation, are already ubiquitous. Image by Jacopo Werther. Licensed under CC Attrib…
Science and the National Interest
Who should judge what counts as “worthy science”? Who should judge what counts as “in the national interest”? New legislation just passed by the U.S. House of Representatives…
The Bodies Exhibit
I recently visited the Bodies exhibit at Atlantic Station which features anatomical presentations of preserved human corpses. They kind of ease you in. The exhibit opens tamely with…
The “Science” of Global Domination
While it is an odd mix of physics, biology, and geometry that has captured the communications strategy of military planners, the messages themselves are very telling about how…
Thinking with Bats, Forests and the Cosmos
Thomas Nagel. 2012. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. New York: Oxford University Press. 128 pages. Eduardo Kohn. 2013. How…
‘Are Religion and Science in Conflict?’
Scientific investigation could have revealed that our universe is full of meaning and purpose. It could have told us that we are at the centre of the…
Annual Review of Anthropology, Climate Change, Anthropocene
This is a guest post by Sean Seary, a Hartwick College graduate interested in understanding human interactions with biological and social environments, and how anthropology can use that…
fix at pleasure
In addition to his substantial contributions to science (see Bogolyubov, Mikhailov & Yushkevich 2007) the eminent swiss mathematician and physicist ↑Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) also wrote te…