Keeping with the spirit of February, the shortest month on the calendar, here is the first part (short and sweet) of what is in the journals this month. In January, I directed readers to recent articles in American Ethnologist and Cultural Anthropology worth checking out. Click here for further details. This month Social Studies of Science and Social Theory …
Author Archives: Jason Alley
In the Journals…End of Year Round Up (Part 1)
Still writing 2012 on your checks and paperwork? For those of you already missing the year when we escaped another end of the world apocalypse, here is a retroactive look at some interesting journal articles published in the later half of 2012.
American Anthropologist offered up an interesting revisiting of the anthropology of the body informed by scholarly work in …
Book review: Paul Rabinow’s The Accompaniment
The Accompaniment: Assembling the Contemporary
by Paul Rabinow
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011
248 pp, US$21.00 paperback
From the start, I should note that I have never particularly liked the genre of the book review. They always read like the experience of going to a museum and listening to one of those guided audio tours—complete with headsets and portable …