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 …
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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, …
From Nature/Culture to Culturally-Dominated Nature: A Spring Conference Overview
A particularly packed spring conference season recently wound up for me, having attended four conferences over the course of about a month and a half. Two of these stood out for the contrast of the approaches to the human, personhood and the self and the questions they raised for the study of each. What was most interesting, was the relative …
Call for papers: Culture-nature revisited (June 8-11, 2011, Grenå, Denmark)
The following announcement has been circulated by Mette Bech Risør:
The 7th Conference in Nordic Anthropology of Health and Medicine will be held June 8-11, 2011 in Grenå, Denmark, under the auspices of the University of Copenhagen and University of Aarhus. The conference is organized by: Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University; Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen University
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