“As Americans, we grieve…”[1]
Mass shootings in contemporary American society have emerged as events of profound political and cultural symbolism; indeed, the news media has often attributed to them the label of “crisis.”[2] They have a singular status in the modern American collective consciousness, one not occupied by other forms of violence. Mass shootings have attained this status, …
We know, we know: you’ve been overloaded with end-of-the-year lists and it’s already 2015 in most of the world, so we’ll be quick. On behalf of the Editorial Collaborative, we offer a big thanks to all of our series and section editors – they’re named below – our book reviewers, our guest contributors, and of course, our readers.
Here’s a …
In anticipation of the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference in Washington DC from December 3-7, we wanted to point out a number of panels on which various members of Somatosphere’s editorial team will be presenting, as well as several other interesting panels, roundtables, lectures, and events:
On Wednesday, December 3rd from 12-1:45pm in Jefferson will be the session “Uncertainty …