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Disability as Rupture
Disability offers opportunities to reconceptualize ethnographic practices and anthropological projects. Actualizing these opportunities requires allowing disabi... More
Introduction: Disability as Rupture
In this Theorizing the Contemporary collection, we invite anthropologists to engage disability and to consider its ongoing presence in the discipline. In so doi... More
The Political Problems with “Bodymind”
I used to start academic talks with a discussion of Eric, a nonverbal student at a special education facility where I conducted fieldwork. He was abnormal by U.... More
The Necessary Tension between Science Fiction and Anthropology
I started my academic career in literature, specifically post–World War II American science fiction. In the literature departments I traveled through, SF was ... More
Let’s Design New Possibilities for Graduate Training in Anthropology
Over the last ten years, since the financial implosion of the Great Recession, there has been intense interest in rethinking graduate training and the overabund... More