Science and Technology Studies (STS)

From the outset, Cultural Anthropology has published articles engaging with science and technology. For example, an early essay of Michael M.J. Fischer's, "Scientific Dialogue and Critical Hermeneutics" (1988). The essay by Emily Martin, "The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s" and David Hess' comments capture the critical import of these topics (1994). Also available is a special issue devoted to these intersections, introduced by Daniel A. Segal's "Editor's Note: On Anthropology and/in/of Science." (2001). See also Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, and Sarah Williams' essay, "Cyborg Anthropology" (1995).

On the Trail of Living Modified Organisms: Environmentalism Within and Against Neoliberal Order
Thomas Pearson
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 712-745
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Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers
Gabriella Coleman
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 3: 420-454.
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The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared
Andrew Lakoff
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 399-428.
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Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw-Milk Cheese in the US
Heather Paxson
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1: 15-47
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Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology
Michael M.J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 539-615.
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Good Gifts for the Common Good: Blood and Bioethics in the Market of Genetic Research
Deepa S. Reddy
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 3: 429-472.
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Culture and Cultural Analysis as Experimental Systems
Michael M. J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1: 1-65.
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Bioethnic Conscription: Genes, Race, and Mexicana/o Ethnicity in Diabetes Research
Michael J. Montoya
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1: 94-128.
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Tracking Properness: Repackaging Culture in a Remote Australian Town
Kimberly Christen
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3: 416-446.

Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics
Christopher Kelty
Cultural Anthropology May 2005, Vol. 20, No. 2: 185-214.
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Making the Monkey: How the Togean Macaque Went from "New Form" to "Endemic Species' in Indonesians' Conservation Biology
Celia Lowe
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 4: 491-516.

Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post–Cold War New Mexico
Joseph Masco
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 4: 517-550.

The Flexible and the Pliant: Disturbed Organisms of Soviet Modernity
Serguei Alex. Oushakine
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 3: 392-428.

Recovering True Selves in the Electro-Spiritual Field of Universal Love
Nickola Pazderic
Cultural Anthropology May 2004, Vol. 19, No. 2: 196-225.

"Dangerous Instrumentality": The Bystander as Subject in Automobility
Sarah S. Lochlann Jain
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 1: 61-94.

Bovine Abominations: Genetic Culture and Politics in the Netherlands
Karen-Sue Taussig
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2004, Vol. 19, No. 3: 305-336.

Musical Community on the Internet: An On-line Ethnography
René T. A. Lysloff
Cultural Anthropology May 2003, Vol. 18, No. 2: 233-263.

Cyborg Violence: Bursting Borders and Bodies with Queer Machines
Anne Allison
Cultural Anthropology May. 2001 Vol. 16, No. 2: 2371-265.
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Editor's Note: On Anthropology and/in/of Science
Daniel A. Segal
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2001, Vol. 16, No. 4: 451-452.

Languages of Sex and AIDS in Nepal: Notes on the Social Production of Commensurability
Stacy Leigh Pigg
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2001, Vol. 16, No. 4: 481-541.

The Sacred in the Scientific: Ambiguous Practices of Science in Tibetan Medicine
Vincanne Adams
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2001, Vol. 16, No. 4: 542-575.

After Culture: Reflections on the Apparition of Anthropology in Artificial Life, a Science of Simulation
Stefan Helmreich
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2001, Vol. 16, No. 4: 612-627.

Technologies of Everyday Life: The Economy of Impotence in Reform China
Judith Farquhar
Cultural Anthropology May 1999, Vol. 14, No. 2: 155-179.

Nuclear Weapons and the Other in the Western Imagination
Hugh Gusterson
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1999, Vol. 14, No. 1: 111-143.

Cyborg Anthropology
Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, Sarah Williams
Cultural Anthropology May 1995, Vol. 10, No. 2: 264-269.

The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s
Emily Martin
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1994, Vol. 9, No. 3: 383-397.

Comments on Emily Martin's "The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s"
David J. Hess
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 1994, Vol. 9, No. 3: 398-401.

Rethinking Modernity: Space and Factory Discipline in China
Lisa Rofel
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 1992, Vol. 7, No. 1: 93-114.

Anthropology as Cultural Critique: Inserts for the 1990s Cultural Studies of Science, Visual-Virtual Realities, and Post-Trauma Polities
Michael M. J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1991, Vol. 6, No. 4: 525-537.

Risk in Culture: The American Conflict over Nuclear Power
Gary L. Downey
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 1986, Vol. 1, No. 4: 388-412.