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Features

Social Vulnerability, Health Behaviors, and Political Responsibility: HIV testing and treatment for female sex workers in St. Petersburg, Russia

By Elizabeth King
This article is part of the series:

“The number of HIV-infected Russians will grow in the next few years, but helping them will become a lot more difficult…” was the introductory line in a front page article in Moskovskie Novosti on December 1, 2011 (World AIDS Day). According to the article, as of 2012, the Russian government will be the sole financier of HIV-prevention programs, which have …

In the Journals

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry special section on “The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals”

By Eugene Raikhel

The latest Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry includes a special section on “The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals: Cultural and Pharmacological Efficacies in Context,” edited by Allison Schlosser and Kristi Ninnemann.  The editors set out the stakes of the section in their Introduction:

“How is psychopharmaceutical efficacy defined, and by whom? How do individuals experience these drugs and interpret their effects in

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Announcements

Call for papers: Border constructions and crossings in the anthropology of psychoactive substances

By Tazin Karim

**CALL FOR PAPERS**

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

San Francisco, CA, November 14-18, 2012

Drug (Ab)use:

Border constructions and crossings in the anthropology of psychoactive substances

 

Co-organizers: Tazin Karim, Roland Moore, Gilbert Quintero, Lee Hoffer, and Daniel Lende on behalf of the Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Study Group of the Society for Medical Anthropology

This panel invites papers that …

Features

Toward a Neuroanthropology of Immersive Online Gaming and Cyberdependence

By Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

Since Spring 2008, I’ve been studying videogaming, conducting participant-observation research in and around the World of Warcraft (WoW), interviewing and surveying the citizens of this online community. I have been particularly fascinated by players’ relationships to their WoW “avatars,” the in-game graphical representations of their characters. Via avatars, gamers can temporarily separate or even “dissociate” from …

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The Neuroanthropology of Embodiment, Absorption, and Dissociation

By Neely Myers

Got Absorption? Towards a Neuroanthropology of Play and Ritual

Cross-posted with Neuroanthropology.

On Thursday, Nov. 17th at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal, Canada, I attended a double panel of neuroanthropologists hosted by the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Organized by Christopher Dana Lynn (University of Alabama) and Jeffrey G. Snodgrass (Colorado State University), the panel was entitled …

FeaturesIn the Journals

Health and medicine 20 years after the Soviet Union

By Eugene Raikhel
This article is part of the series:

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 …