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Book Reviews: Indigenous Peoples, Civil Society, and the Neo-Liberal State in Latin America
Published 2011“…“Civil society”: what’s in it for Latin American indigenous peoples? Ten essays penned by anthropologists, historians and activists grapple with this question in this very welcome volume. …”
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Icons, Frames, and Language Games: Bruno Latour, On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods
Published 2018“…The three essays in this volume are each built around a different icon, genre, framing, or language game: a drasha (about iconoclashes), a language game (religious speech, religious paintings), and ethnopsychiatry. …”
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Overview of the Colombian indigenous movement
Published 2012“…1. INTRODUCTION This essay examines the emergence of Colombia’s indigenous people as a political force, focusing in particular on the unequal relationship between indigenous communities (pueblos) and the state, as well as the effects of the half-century of violence. …”
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Slow Food in a Fat Society: Satisfying Ethical Appetites
Published 2011“…Slow Food in a Fat Society Using historian Hillel Schwartz's utopian conception of a "fat society" as inspiration, this essay considers the potential contribution of the Slow Food movement to American notions of dietary ethics. …”
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The Courts in American Public Culture
Published 2014“…After recounting the social science literature on the mixed reception of courts in American public culture, this essay explains how the contradictory embrace of courts and law by Americans is not a weakness or flaw, nor a mark of confusion or naïveté. …”
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A Tale of Two Genome Institutes: Qualitative Networks, Charismatic Voice, and R&D strategies: Juxtaposing GIS Biopolis and BGI
Published 2017“…Methodologically, by looking at qualitative networks, charismatic leaders, and research strategies, this essay proposes a finer grained, meso-level, ethnographic analysis that allows for multi-scalar tracking, and juxtaposition as a generator of comparative insights. …”
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From Spaceship Earth to Google Ocean: Planetary Icons, Indexes, and Infrastructures
Published 2012“…If in the 1960s, the Whole Earth, the planet as seen from space, became a cold war, proto-environmentalist icon for a fragile ocean planet, in the 2010s, Google Earth, the globe encountered as a manipulable virtual object on our computer screens, has become an index for multiple and socially various interpretations and interventions; its thicket of satellite images, text legends, and street level photographs can all be tagged, commented upon, modified. In this essay, I examine a kindred image-object, Google Ocean, asking what sort of representation of the planetary sea is in the making in our digital days. …”
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The Genders of Waves
Published 2018“…At other moments, the ocean has been masculine, the embodiment of Poseidon or Yahweh, or of the virile power of storms and vigorous hydrotherapy. This essay examines how ocean waves—icons of rhythmic and predictable motion as well as of chaos and destruction—have been similarly gendered, and asks particularly after descriptions of waves as women. …”
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Nature/Culture/Seawater
Published 2011“…This essay considers seawater as a substance and symbol in anthropological and social theory. …”
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The Rhythmic Beat of the Revolution in Iran
Published 2018“…This essay investigates three methods for reading topical events, in this case events in Iran in 2009. …”
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