“Passing with Pills: Redefining Performance in the Pharmaceuticalized University” is a very thoughtful and thought provoking ethnographic look in the mirror. Tazin Karim of Michigan State University did an excellent job applying a critical, medical anthropological lens to academia and the pressures of the rite of passage in America referred to as college. When discussing the exportation/globalization ofContinue reading “Performance Enhancing Drugs – College Edition”
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Remembering Zora, Writing Women’s Worlds
Feminist anthropologists striving to bring women’s voices forward through life histories and personal narratives and auto ethnography are “walking in Zora’s shoes” as Irma McClaurin’s title suggests (McClaurin 2011). Although, in some circles of anthropology Zora’s work is forgotten and ignored, she pioneered important realms of anthropological study and writing. Anthropologically informed creative writing canContinue reading “Remembering Zora, Writing Women’s Worlds”
What is the Place of Emotion in Humanistic Empiricism?
Recently, someone close to me drew the connection between the demand for the removal of emotion from scholarship and the continued presence of underlying masculine bias in academia. I was taken aback by the implications of this connection and my blindness to it. In reading Ruth Behar’s The Vulnerable Observer and “Believing in Anthropology asContinue reading “What is the Place of Emotion in Humanistic Empiricism?”
Sydney Yeager 