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Author Archives: Erin Koch

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November 26, 2008

Anthropology NOW!

By Erin Koch

As many of you know, the premier edition of Anthropology Now is available online and in print. Now. This journal provides an exciting and important arena for exploring, among other things, cultural aspects of medicine, science and technology. The first issue addresses topics such as the lives of combat veterans from the Iraq War; the upscale store Anthropologie; insect nightmares; …

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Thinking with Dementia

Stories about time shifted, folded and shared, the extraordinary ordinary, and keeping separate and being a-part.

Toxicity, Waste, and Detritus in the Global South: Africa and Beyond

Short adventures into our planet’s toxic sensorium, by Africanists and some of their scholarly kin.‬

The Ethnographic Case

Telling Stories and Shaping Knowledge: Reflections on the tensions between the general and the particular.‬

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‪Itemizing the technological present: A series of short entries from scholars on the classical and contemporary sites in medicine and science.‬

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HIV, Science, and the Social: A collaborative forum for critical enquiry on HIV/AIDS and global health: experiment, ethics, and practice.

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  • In the Journals – November 2019
  • Histórias of Zika
  • Bioethnography and the Birth Cohort: A Method for Making New Kinds of Anthropological Knowledge about Transmission (which is what anthropology has been about all along)
  • A Poetics of Dementia
  • Introduction: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention
  • A Year of Trans Childhood

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  • Seth Holmes' Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
  • A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 1
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  • Philippe Descola's Beyond Nature and Culture
  • Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: Sentient Imaginary Friends, Embodied Joint Attention, and Hypnotic Sociality in a Wired World
  • Medical anthropology films
  • Angela Garcia's The Pastoral Clinic
  • Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic
  • Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
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