Lectures

February 25, 2021

Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions

By Ayo Wahlberg, Jieun Lee, Anna Mann, Arseli Dokumaci, Natasja Kingod, Marie Kofod Svensson and Laura Louise Heinsen

This article is part of the series: Chronic living

On the 12^th of January 2020, the World Health Organization confirmed that the “mystery virus” which, according to reports from China, had infected some 50 people in the city of Wuhan, was not SARS following the genetic sequencing of a “novel coronavirus”. Within two weeks, Wuhan’s hospitals were overwhelmed, and the city was sent into lockdown as health authorities …

Lectures

July 16, 2019

Life/NonLife: a forum

By Ann H. Kelly and Alex Nading

This Somatosphere forum features essays written in the wake of a debate held at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. The debate was organized around the following motion: “Lacking empirical traction and heuristic power, the distinction between life and nonlife is one that anthropology needs to discard.” We hope …

Books Features

August 5, 2015

An anthropology beyond nature and culture? Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson’s edited volume, Biosocial Becomings.

By Perig Pitrou

Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology

Cambridge University Press, 2013, 288 pages.

This essay originally appeared in Portuguese in the journal Mana. Translated by Daniela Ginsburg.

Anthropology established itself as an independent discipline by designating the social as a specific field of study, allowing it to distance itself from certain retrograde positions found within the domain of …

Books

September 23, 2013

Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human

By Frédéric Keck

This article is part of the series: Second opinion

Editor’s note: As part of our new series, Second Opinion (not to be confused with the SMA’s similarly titled newsletter) we ask two contributors to review the same book, respond to the same question, or comment on the same set of issues. For our first pair of Second Opinion posts, we invited two reviews of Eduardo Kohn’s new book, How …

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Chronic living: ethnographic explorations of daily lives swayed by (multiple) medical conditions

Life/NonLife: a forum

An anthropology beyond nature and culture? Tim Ingold and Gisli Palsson’s edited volume, Biosocial Becomings.

Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human