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Putting Science in its Place by Mackenzie Cramblit
In some corners of anthropology, it has been said that science studies lacks a robust sense of place. But many capable ethnographers have brought labs, hospital suites, and production facilities to...
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Cecilia Van Hollen’s Birth in the Age of AIDS by Lily Shapiro
Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India By Cecilia Van Hollen Stanford University Press, 2013. 274 pp. Cecilia Van Hollen’s latest book, Birth in the Age of AIDS: Women,...
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Beyond “Wombs for Rent”: Indian Surrogates and the Need for Evidence-Based...
“We know that if we take some trouble with our body, it will take care of the education of our children; or we will be able to have a house, so we will be able to live well; or we will be able to...
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Pesticides and global health: ‘ambivalent objects’ in anthropological...
Pesticides: can’t live with them, can’t live without them In Sri Lanka, producers of the illicit liquor kasippu sometimes suspend a bottle of pesticide above the vat during the fermentation process. It...
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Ian Harper’s Development and Public Health in the Himalaya by Alice Street
Ian Harper, Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Development at the University of Edinburgh, talks to Alice Street about his book Development and Public Health in the Himalaya: Reflections on...
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Listening with Veena Das to Ordinary Ethics by Michael M. J. Fischer
Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty by Veena Das Fordham University Press, 2014. 255 pages In Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (Fordham 2014) we listen with Veena Das to ordinary ethics in...
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Book Forum — Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence,...
Andrew Brandel has organized an extraordinary and diverse set of commentaries on Nayanika Mookherjee’s The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 (Duke...
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Projit Bihari Mukharji’s Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies,...
Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences Projit Bihari Mukharji University of Chicago Press, 2016. 376 pages. In a sequel to his 2009 Nationalizing the Body, Projit...
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Dreaming Borders: On Cats and Trauma by Malini Sur
I dream of a black cat. She jumps over a barbed wire fence, and across it. She leaps from one side of the fence to the other. Her coat glistens in the moonlight. Except for the gentle sound of her...
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Book Forum: Therapeutic Politics of Care in Asia by Nicholas Bartlett
The six review essays in this collection emerge from a joint launch of five books and one dissertation/ book-in-progress and a panel at the recent annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies....
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