Somatosphere is looking to recruit 3-4 people to assist with our ongoing “In the Journals” feature. “In the Journals” is a monthly roundup of newly-published journal articles. Below, please find more information about what is involved and who to contact if you’re interested in joining the team. We look forward to hearing from you!
“In the Journals” provides a snapshot …
There are a few exciting additions to the Somatosphere masthead that I’d like to announce. (Please note that we are working to fix up the masthead itself, and that a version with proper bios will return shortly!)
One important piece of news if that the site finally has a Managing Editor again. Talia Gordon, who has been contributing to …
This year, we at Somatosphere are trying an experiment in academic mentorship. Two of our regular contributors and editorial collaborative members, Emily Yates-Doerr and Matthew Wolf-Meyer, are hosting a panel designed to ease early-career anthropologists (broadly defined) into academic publishing. The idea is to bring together scholars interested in analyzing cognition or cognitive-related practices ethnographically (see the CFP below), with …
This post announces the launch of a book. It is also an invitation.
The book, The Ethnographic Case: Telling Stories, Shaping Knowledge, was conceived as a Somatosphere curated series.[1] It is now being published by Mattering Press in two iterations. The first you can access now through this link; the second will be available in print in …
I’m very pleased to announce that we are welcoming a group of new members to Somatosphere‘s Editorial Collaborative. Below is a list of their names and affiliations, but please see the masthead for more detailed bios.
Nayantara Sheoran Appleton is a lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Adia Benton is an Assistant Professor of …
The last thirty years have seen an intensification in ways of thinking about our health and disease in the future tense. Risk, precarity, subjunctivity — all three point to the ways that temporality shape human experience, subjectively, interpersonally, and institutionally. But what if we turn our attention away from the clinic and its therapeutic technologies — which focus on the …