Figure 1: Janelle’s chair, with writing and knitting projects underwayThe conversation began on a summer day in a 13th Century chateau, with a moat, on the outskirts of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Janelle Taylor was leading a writing workshop with Jeremy Greene and Rachel Prentice, as part of a larger event for the ERC-funded project Making Clinical …
I have never lost my childhood habit of beachcombing for special rocks and shells, and I think of ethnography as involving a similar process of collecting bits of evidence. Mostly what I collect are words (interviews, quotations, or notes) that I then use to make various kinds of word compositions (descriptions, analyses, arguments, and articles). But words do also have …
As members of Somatosphere’s Editorial Collaborative, we have been following the unfolding crisis surrounding Hau with profound concern (Agro 2018, Flaherty 2018). As others have noted, this crisis has revealed multiple structural issues that deserve intense engagement beyond the specifics of the individual case: open-access (OA), digital scholarship and publication, yes, but also academic power, precarity, and vulnerability; …
What sources of creative insight and inspiration might scholars today find in the history of our field — in particular, in some of the paths not taken? What hidden treasures lie buried in overlooked and neglected works from the past?
With Lesley Sharp’s original essay, “The Ethnographic Vision of John L. Gwaltney: The Thrice Shy, A Forgotten Gem…
The Cascadia Seminar: Ethnographic Adventures in Medical Anthropology
http://cascadiaseminar.wordpress.com/
April 24-26, 2015
at Seattle University and the University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Plans are underway for the 3rd Cascadia Seminar! The Cascadia Seminar is a small, intimate, high-interest, low-cost weekend conference organized collaboratively by medical anthropologists on faculty at a number of different universities and colleges in the US Pacific …
The University of Washington Department of Anthropology is seeking an anthropologist to fill a temporary, one-year (9 month), full-time (100% FTE) lecturer position in medical anthropology to begin September 2014. The position is not renewable at this time. The lecturer will be responsible for teaching six undergraduate courses per year that serve a vibrant undergraduate program in Medical Anthropology and …