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Table by Emily Martin
Early anthropological experiments depended on tables to hold their equipment steady, at eye level, and off the ground. Photographs from the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits...
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Petri Dish by Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
The petri dish was made for separation. It was developed for culturing microorganisms while separating them from airborne contaminates. As part of its ability to make separations between the...
View ArticleEntangled in the collaborative turn: observations from the field by Des...
If there really has been a ‘collaborative turn’ between the social and biological sciences, then the stakes of that turn are still very much to be negotiated. ‘Collaboration,’ of course, is not a...
View ArticleExperimental anthropology in the making: a conversation with Andreas...
Andreas Roepstorff is Professor in Anthropology at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he is also Director of the Interacting Minds Centre. Since the early 2000s, he has pursued an intensely...
View ArticleBeauty’s Knowledge: Hawthorne’s Moral Fable “Rappaccini’s Daughter” by Leo...
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” is a nineteenth-century moral fable that sets the fruits of experimental knowledge against obligations to humanity, and stages a dramatic encounter...
View ArticleThinking with dementia. An introduction to the series by Jeannette Pols
Fourteen stories This series is a collection of fourteen stories that are written to ‘think with dementia’. Over the past three years, six PhD students from the anthropology department at the...
View ArticleChronic Experimentation by Kane Race
The introduction of effective combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV disease in 1996 was commonly narrated as a major event that transformed HIV from an inevitable death sentence into a ‘chronic...
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Understated, not overlooked by Anthony Stavrianakis
A Simpler Life: Synthetic Biological Experiments Talia Dan-Cohen Cornell University Press, 2021. 174 pages. First, take a self-consciously self-aggrandizing area of bioengineering, “synthetic...
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Writing Life No. 18: An Interview with Stefania Pandolfo by Basit Kareem Iqbal
The anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo approaches ethnography as not just the depiction of a world but as what addresses and displaces both the writer and the reader, where ethnography itself becomes a...
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