Somatosphere

Science, Medicine, and Anthropology

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Stories about time shifted, folded and shared, the extraordinary ordinary, and keeping separate and being a-part.

Short adventures into our planet’s toxic sensorium, by Africanists and some of their scholarly kin.‬

Telling Stories and Shaping Knowledge: Reflections on the tensions between the general and the particular.‬

‪Itemizing the technological present: A series of short entries from scholars on the classical and contemporary sites in medicine and science.‬

HIV, Science, and the Social: A collaborative forum for critical enquiry on HIV/AIDS and global health: experiment, ethics, and practice.

The Unconscious: Metaphor and Metonymy
Seth Holmes' Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 1
A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 4
Philippe Descola's Beyond Nature and Culture
Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: Sentient Imaginary Friends, Embodied Joint Attention, and Hypnotic Sociality in a Wired World
Medical anthropology films
Angela Garcia's The Pastoral Clinic
Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic
Eduardo Kohn's How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

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