Somatosphere welcomes you to the September edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Technology and Culture The Problem with the Sex Toy Narrative: Design and Medical Intent in Early Vibrators Dianya Mia Hua This article challenges the dominant interpretation of early […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the August edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Sociology of Health and Illness More Than a Role Dispute: Physician Associates and the Changing Grounds of Medical Authority Louise Ashley This article examines how the legitimacy of […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the July edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Cultural Anthropology Out of Time? Chronocracy and Ageism in Brexit–COVID-19 England Cathrine Degnen Generation or relative age is a common way humans define social difference. In Europe and […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the June edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American Anthropologist Positioning Ontologies of Racial Inequity That are Prevalent in Reproductive and Maternal Health in South Africa Efua Prah This paper discusses the racialized historical trajectories through […]
For this installment of In the Journals, Koichi Kameda de Figueiredo Carvalho suggests two French journals which may be of interest to Somatosphere readers: Revue Anthropologie des Connaissances (RAC): There is not yet a dedicated society for the social studies of science and technology in France. However, Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances (RAC) is a key […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the April edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry Clinical Ethnographies of the Politics and Poetics of the US Healthcare Crisis Liza Buchbinder, Seth M. Holmes, Rebecca Newmark, Bonnie Wong, Philippe Bourgois The confluence […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the June edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Anthropologie & Santé La césarienne dans le monde, à l’intersection entre paysages médicaux globalisés et logiques locales Globalised caesareans: between medical standardisation and local realities Sous la direction […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the April edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American Anthropologist The will to speak out: Medical anthropologist and patient in times of COVID-19 in Peru Carmen J. Yon Using autoethnographic research, I analyze the experience of […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the March edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. Biosocieties Hormonal stories: a new materialist exploration of hormonal emplotment in four case studies Sonja Erikainen, Andrea Ford, Roslyn Malcolm, Lisa Raeder Hormones are complex biosocial objects that provoke myriad cultural […]
For this installment of In the Journals, here is a quick orientation to, and selection from, two French journals that could interest readers of Somatosphere: Terrain: Created by the French Ministry of Culture in 1983, the journal Terrain is dedicated to contemporary anthropological inquiry in its broadest sense. Drawing on fieldwork, ethnography, as well […]
Somatosphere welcomes you to the February edition of “In the Journals.” Scroll through our monthly round up of new research across anthropology, STS and social science journals. American Anthropologist A forgetful ethnography: Memory, memoir, and brain injuries Denielle Elliott In this paper, I consider how one writes an ethnographic memoir about memories, time, and our […]
