Here is a selection of articles published in February. Enjoy!

Cultural Anthropology (Open Access)

Vital Labors: Transacting Oocytes across Borders in the Post-Soviet Space (open access)
Madeleine Reeves

Anthropological accounts of labor mobility in the post-Soviet region have tended to focus on the commoditization, securitization, and illegalization of migrant wage labor, rather than on the generation of surplus through the

Rounding out September’s In the Journals compilation, here are several more articles of interest. See also these Special Issues on “Island Imaginaries” and “Beyond the Production of Ignorance” and more in a separate post by Eliza Williamson. Enjoy!

American Anthropologist 

Learning How Not to Know: Pragmatism, (In)expertise, and the Training of American Helping Professionals
E. Summerson Carr

Motivational interviewing

Here’s the first part of November’s round-up of new journal articles that may be of interest. Enjoy!

Science, Technology and Human Values

Borderlands of Life: IVF Embryos and the Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany (open access)
Sheila Jasanoff, Ingrid Metzler

Human embryos produced in labs since the 1970s have generated layers of uncertainty for law and

Here are some of the articles published in February. Enjoy!

Cultural Anthropology (Open Access)

Gestures of Care and Recognition: An Introduction
Lauren Cubellis

This collection of essays offers an exploration of care as a gesture of recognition. As both object of inquiry and ethnographic representation, care is examined as the work of discerning and representing traces. The introduction and subsequent