Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea
Journal of Ecological Anthropology
IJAPS Series for South Asia | Taking India to Market: Retail Revolution and Consumer Culture
IJAPS Series for South Asia Taking India to Market Retail Revolution and Consumer Culture In the wake of India’s 1991 economic reforms, trade barriers were lowered and state regulation policies with regard to industrial production and foreign direct investment were significantly liberalized. India transitioned from a state-centric to a market-oriented model of development. Subsequent reforms … Continue reading →
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Contemplating the Robotic Embrace
Introspection for Affective Anthropology by Daniel White (Free University of Berlin) daniel.white@fu-berlin.de June 20, 2018 The first time I held a robot in my arms I was overcome with a wave of sympathy. Pepper had arrived in our laboratory in a larg…
26 | 2018 – L’engagement des supporters de football dans l’espace public
La politisation des supporters de football et leur engagement dans l’espace public [Full text]
Jean-François Polo
Quand le supportérisme et la politique s’imbriquent [Full text]
Gökçe…
26 | 2018 – L’engagement des supporters de football dans l’espace public
La politisation des supporters de football et leur engagement dans l’espace public [Full text]
Jean-François Polo
Quand le supportérisme et la politique s’imbriquent [Full text]
Gökçe…
Helping Students Synthesize Academic Literature: Development of an Excel Research Grid
One of the key challenges for undergraduate students is learning to read, understand, and synthesize academic literature. To help students develop these skills, a research grid assignment using Microsoft Excel was developed. This assignment breaks down…
Perceptions of Risk, Lives in Sacrifice: Service, Learning, and Liberation Pedagogy in Appalachia
In the Appalachian mountains, residents experience disproportionately high rates of poverty, exorbitant rates of incarceration, above-average mortality rates across the lifespan, and epidemically low educational attainment rates. The complexities of th…
Fake News, Fake Science?: Reflections of Teaching Introduction to Biological Anthropology in the Era of Trump
Combating fake news and fradualent science can be incredibly taxing. In this paper, I reflect on teaching introduction to biological anthropology at a large university and incorporating old academic literature as a teaching document. By utilizing old b…
Integrating Anthropology and Biology: Comparing Success Rates and Learning Outcomes for University-Level Human Evolution Courses
Curriculum development in biological anthropology requires instructors to generate learning outcomes for both anthropology and biology majors. However, these students have substantially different backgrounds. Anthropology curricula do not always requir…
From Mad Cows to Posthumanism
Alan Smart (University of Calgary): “Posthumanism, as I use the term, means the ways in which we are entangled with non-humans, and which expand our capacities (although in other ways they may diminish them, as with disease). Rather than being a featu…
New Solution to the Classroom Blogging Problem
New Solution to the Classroom Blogging Problem
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift 03-04/2017
Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen: Redaksjonelt
Benedikte V. Lindskog, Tone Sommerfelt: Helse, nasjonalstat og virkelighetspolitikk
Lotte Danielsen: Mødrehelse som image og valuta
Camilla Hansen: Skjelvende fortellinger
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Vulnerable Normality: Popular Neuroimaging and the Discursive Logic of the (Dis)able(d) Brain
The aim of this article is to analyse popular neuroimaging of (dis)able(d) brains as a cultural phenomenon, as well as to explore how there has been, during the last decades, a subtle but important change in the way “normal” brains are depicted in popu…
The Hamburgers in the Fridge: An Interview with Professor Nikolas Rose about Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Neuroscience and Critical Friendship
During 2016 and 2017 the Cultural Studies Group of Neuroscience at the Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences at Lund University in Sweden organised a seminar series titled the ‘Seminar on Neuroscience, Culture and Society’. Professor Nikolas Rose wa…
Personal Utopia: The “Good Life” in Popular Religion and Literature in Contemporary Sweden
This article examines the discourse of the “good life” in popular religion and literature in contemporary Sweden. The results indicate thnew spiritual movements (e.g. mindfulness and the Enneagram) situate traditional transcendental goals within the in…
Visualising the Hypnotised Brain: Hysteria Research from Charcot to Functional Brain Scans
Contrary to the widely held belief in the humanities that hysteria no longer exists, this article shows that the advent of new brain imaging technologies has reignited scientific research into this age-old disorder, once again linking it to hypnosis. E…
The Sci-Fi Brain: Narratives in Neuroscience and Popular Culture
The connection between neuroscience, popular media and lay perceptions of the brain involves the framing of complex scientific processes and results through familiar cultural narratives and metaphors. Such narratives are often built on the premise that…
Everyday Imaginaries, Narratives and Strokes: An Ethnographic Exploration of Narratives among Stroke Patients and their Spouses
That a stroke is a disruptive event in many people’s lives is no secret. That it also represents challenges to the communal construction of narratives between couples is less explored, and is the subject matter of this paper. With a narrative theoretic…
Neuro-Problems: Knowing Politics Through the Brain
In recent years, neuroscientific knowledge has been applied far beyond its context of emergence to explain human behaviour in general and to address a host of specific societal problems. In this article, we discuss the emerging research field of ‘neuro…
Interdisciplinary Entanglements: A review of Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences, by Felicity Callard and Des Fitzgerald (2015): Palgrave Macmillan.
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The Phenomenon of Brain World : Neuroculture in the Making by Patients with Parkinson’s Disease
The aim of this article is to explore how the phenomenon of brain world, as a symptom of a possible emerging neuroculture, is perceived and enacted by patients with Parkinson’s disease, who, in their daily life, are subjected to neuroscience, most ofte…
The Unbound Brain – A Thematic Introduction
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Culture Unbound Vol. 10 Editorial
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Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.33 No.3
Published: December 2017.