• Somatosphere in 2011: a year in review by Eugene Raikhel

    Updated: 2011-12-30 21:53:23
    2011 was an exciting year at Somatosphere.  We completed a redesign of the site and introduced a number of new editorial features, including post series.  I’d like to thank all of the editors and contributors for their hard work on the site this year.  And thanks to our readers for your input and support.  We’ll have a number of new …

  • Stuff to Check Out: Digital Return, Open Access, Annotum, Anthropology Report

    Updated: 2011-12-23 02:50:36
    There is a lot going on these days. Here are a few things I am taking note of. I hope to check these projects and tools out more carefully soon. The upcoming Digital Return workshop being organized by Kim Christen, Josh Bell and Mark Turin. Peter Suber’s forthcoming book Open Access to be published in [...]

  • Wanted: Anthropology Minded Museum Directors

    Updated: 2011-12-22 01:27:49
    There are a number of museum directorships of relevance to anthropology and folklore studies open right now. The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University and the Museum of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University are among them.  Most relevant to me, because the [...]

  • Winter Reading

    Updated: 2011-12-22 00:22:14
    What better way to spend your winter break than to read all those books you didn’t have time to read because you were busy reading other books? I thought I’d mention a few things that are on my reading list that deserve more attention than they might otherwise get: In Good Company: An Anatomy of [...]

  • Call for Papers: Embattled Spaces/Contested Orders, Germany 05/30-06/02 2012 by Melanie Boeckmann

    Updated: 2011-12-21 09:20:27
    The Association of Africanists in Germany e.V. (Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland) has extended their call for abstracts for their 2012 conference on Embattled Spaces/Contested Orders in Cologne, Germany. Not all of the panels will be held in English; however, several of them specifically request applicants to hand in abstracts in English. Topics of panels range from governance, language and …

  • Global Mental Health: Bridging the Perspectives of Cultural Psychiatry and Public Health by Eugene Raikhel

    Updated: 2011-12-12 15:20:36
    : Somatosphere Science , Medicine , and Anthropology A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical anthropology , science and technology studies , cultural psychiatry , psychology and bioethics . Skip to content Search : for Home Masthead Our Contributors Submissions Feedback Resources Follow : us rss Follow us via our rss feed email list Sign up for our email list twitter Follow us on Twitter facebook Follow us on Facebook Post navigation The rise and fall of the extrasense Call for Papers : Embattled Spaces Contested Orders , Germany 05 30-06 02 2012 Announcements December 12, 2011 Global Mental Health : Bridging the Perspectives of Cultural Psychiatry and Public Health By Eugene Raikhel Next year’s  Advanced Study Institute in Cultural , Psychiatry hosted by the

  • In the Journals… by Keahnan Washington

    Updated: 2011-12-04 02:19:14
    Water, Secularism, and Love are the themes of Cultural Anthropology‘s November Issue.  Of special interest to the Somatosphere readership might be the theme of secularism under which Charles Hirschkind looks to explore and develop secularism and the ways in which it is reflected as affect and in embodiment in Is There A Secular Body?  while Talal Asad examines …

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