At the end of 2009, linguists around the world collected words to characterize the first decade of the new millennium. “Aporkalypse” appeared at the top of their list, describing a swine-inspired end of days ushered in by the threat of bird flu. Though playful, this term points to a growing recognition that animals –and their diseases –have determining …
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Special Issue: Body & Society, “Medicine, Bodies, Politics: Experimentation and Emergence”
In what seems a season of special issues, Body & Society has a special double issue (Sept. and Dec. 2012) entitled “Medicine, Bodies, Politics: Experimentation and Emergence”. Editors Mike Michael and Marsha Rosengarten’s extensive introduction alone makes the issue valuable, to say nothing of the compelling six articles and afterward that follow it.
The following are the abstracts for …
Medical Governance, Culture, and Subjectivities: a Syllabus
This is the most recent version of a graduate course in medical anthropology theory that I teach. The main caveat is that this is the second in a set of three theory courses students are required to take, so it presumes the students have already taken the first course, which covers an extensive range of contemporary medical anthropology. My hope …
The Rise of Multispecies Ethnography
Multispecies ethnography (the study of both human and non-human organisms and their linkages both conceptually and in reality) has a truly emergent feel at the moment within (and outside) of anthropology. Many people in anthropology feel very excited about the prospects of a new inter- and intra- disciplinary field of empirical study and theorizing.
If one is interested in the …
“Multispecies Ethnography": a special issue of Cultural Anthropology
Just when you thought it was safe to engage in human exceptionalism…. Cultural Anthropology comes along with a special issue on “Multispecies Ethnography.”
In their introduction– which surveys a range of literatures and conceptual turns which have preceded and laid the groundwork for this “species turn” – S. Eben Kirksey and Stefan Helmreich write:
“A new genre
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Plenary talks from the 2010 SCA conference
Videos of several of the plenary talks from this year’s Society for Cultural Anthropology conference on Natureculture – which Stephanie Lloyd recently reported on for Somatosphere — are now available for viewing and listening on the Cultural Anthropology journal website and on a Vimeo site.
I am embedding videos of the talks by Judith Farquhar and Donna Haraway below, …