Last month Matthew Dalstrom linked to web content on abortion and patent laws. The divide between public and private, and questions such as: Is what’s private really always political? inspire this month’s short web roundup.
The Open Access movement has a vocal political agenda. In academic publishing, and also in anthropology as an academic field, one argument is that …
Author Archives: Melanie Boeckmann
April In the Journals… (1/2)
With daylight saving time come new articles this April!
The current issue of Medical Anthropology explores concepts of healing in diverse contexts. James B. Waldram opens the discussion with his investigation into the notion of efficacy within indigenous healing practices in Belize and Canada. He offers two approaches to define efficacy, each focussed on a different outcome: transformation and restoration.…
In the Journals… New Year’s edition
Happy New Year! As you know, traditional academic publishing lags months (I’ve even heard of years!) behind current events. Therefore, although I’d love to present you this month’s themes as “fresh starts”, “new beginnings” and similar tropes, I can instead only tell you: there’s lots to be read this January!
The Health January 2013 issue contains six articles, this …
Web Roundup October 2012
Today I am testing the waters of the web roundups here at Somatosphere. Feel free to give feedback!
This month’s theme is data, inspired by many tweets I received on ENCODE and big data.
I was intrigued to hear that the American Anthropological Association has started an anthropological data wiki. The collection of datasets already seems pretty impressive, but …
In the Journals … September 2012
You likely have barely finished reading all those articles from the August In the Journals… I will deliver you the September goods regardless and hope you’ll find something in there that keeps you interested through the exciting (but possibly overwhelming?) first weeks of the semester.
Belief is the central theme in this month’s issue of Ethos. From the journey …
In the Journals… July 2012, Part 2
You can find Part One of this month’s In the Journals… feature here.
This month’s Science, Technology, & Human Values focuses on “Experiments in Context and Contexting“. Tiago Moreira argues that singularities in social science research are woven into political orders in two related ways: through an unraveling of sociotechnical ties and through the uniqueness of persons …