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 …
The October 2011 issue of History of the Human Sciences is a special issue entitled “Foucault Across the Disciplines.” The eight articles which compose the issue, along with guest editor Colin Koopman’s introduction,
“demonstrate the enormous gain in critical potential that can be realized by taking up Foucault’s own posture as a cross-disciplinary or counter-disciplinary thinker. One of the signal
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I have been conducting research on the experiences of women with mental illness in India in an effort to understand how everyday relationships shape medical practice and enliven the subjectivities clinical life makes possible. Like any ethnographer, I am interested in what people say. Ethnographic methods privilege speech: we seek narrative, memories, and a good interview; we hope to overhear …
Frontpage news over the past month has repeatedly returned to the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair, in which prominent French politician and development affairs guru Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) was arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting a hotel worker in New York City. The accusation, emerging at the end of May, sparked an international scandal that many speculate will impact the outcome …
Erica James. Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 384 pages; $24.95
Review by Hanna Kienzler (McGill University)
“Supported by a rich cultural heritage, the Haitian people retain a capacity for hope, faith, and resilience that remains a tremendous resource for any efforts to rehabilitate the nation and its people” …
This post was contributed by Emily Yates-Doerr (University of Amsterdam)
I thank Somatosphere for inviting me to submit to their blog. I am in the process of completing my book manuscript: The Weight of the Body: Changing Ideals of Fatness, Nourishment and Health in Guatemala. My entry for this blog does not come directly from material included in the book, …