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Author Archives: Jon Shaffer

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February 5, 2018

The De-socializing of Jim Kim?

By Jon Shaffer

The 12th president of the World Bank Group, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, is arguably the most powerful anthropologist in the world. As the co-founder of the groundbreaking NGO Partners In Health, the former president of Dartmouth College, the former head of the World Health Organization’s 3 by 5 Initiative, and longtime champion of “the science of …

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A weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats.

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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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