I want to invite those attending this year’s American Anthropological Association meetings in Chicago to view the screening of Off Label, a documentary film by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher released in 2012 (Saturday, the 23rd @ 5pm in PDR4 at the Chicago Hilton). The film captures, in a very effective and emotional way, how people come to …
Author Archives: Michael Oldani
The Rise of Multispecies Ethnography
Multispecies ethnography (the study of both human and non-human organisms and their linkages both conceptually and in reality) has a truly emergent feel at the moment within (and outside) of anthropology. Many people in anthropology feel very excited about the prospects of a new inter- and intra- disciplinary field of empirical study and theorizing.
If one is interested in the …
Ritalin’s gendered drug script
Following up on our previous post on the history of Ritalin marketing and its link to a gendered script, here is a nice little article describing the recycling of Ritalin into the “mother’s little helper” narrative.…