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Thinking with Dementia

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.‬

Commonplaces

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

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Recent Posts

  • Bioethnography and the Birth Cohort: A Method for Making New Kinds of Anthropological Knowledge about Transmission (which is what anthropology has been about all along)
  • Introduction: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial; birth cohorts as ethnographic object of inquiry and site of intervention
  • A Year of Trans Childhood
  • Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga’s The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production
  • On reproductive work and family, again
  • PrEP at the After/Party: The ‘Post-AIDS’ Politics of Frank Ocean’s “PrEP+”

Popular Posts

  • 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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