The most recent edition of Medical Anthropology features work by Somatosphere contributor Stephanie Lloyd and Nicolas Moreau that explores the meanings of symptom reduction and ‘normalcy’ for people treated for anxiety disorders. They situate patients’ frustrated expectations for an ‘ideal self’ within a broader cultural context in which the desire to achieve an ever-elusive ‘ideal self’ is widespread. Bianca …
Category Archives: In the Journals
In the journals and on the web in 2011
I was happy to learn that Somatosphere made the list of top 10 (really 12) anthropology blogs — the result of a survey put together by Jason Antrosio at Anthropology Report. Thanks to Jason for putting this together. We’re in great company on the list, with excellent sites such as Savage Minds, Neuroanthropology, John Hawks Weblog and …
In the Journals (1)
In this month’s American Anthropologist, Rozema shows that “the practice of forced disappearance of persons on the part of paramilitary groups has become linked to specific processes of globalization. Global flows related to biopolitics, global crime networks, and dehumanizing imaginations reproduced by mass media together constitute a driving force behind forced disappearances.”
“Psychological Anthropology and Adolescent Well-Being”: A Special Journal Issue
The December 2011 issue of Ethos is a special issue, entitled “Psychological Anthropology and Adolescent Well-Being: Steps toward Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice.” Building upon recent interest in policy- and practice-based collaboration among the psychological anthropology community, the issue enacts such collaboration by pairing original research articles with commentary by policy experts and practitioners. As the editors, Eileen …
In the Journals…
Water, Secularism, and Love are the themes of Cultural Anthropology‘s November Issue. Of special interest to the Somatosphere readership might be the theme of secularism under which Charles Hirschkind looks to explore and develop secularism and the ways in which it is reflected as affect and in embodiment in Is There A Secular Body? while Talal Asad examines …
Health and medicine 20 years after the Soviet Union
This article is part of the series: Twenty years after the Soviet Union
Nearly two decades have now passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Over the next several months we will be running a series of articles which consider a specific issues related to health and medicine in the former Soviet Union. The articles comprising “20 Years After the Soviet Union” will highlight research by anthropologists and other social …