Women playa prominent role as traders in the central market of the regional capital ofKaolack, a multi-ethnic, predominantly Wolof city in Senegal. This article examines gender and class in relation to the social uses of space that... more
Women playa prominent role as traders in the central market of the regional capital ofKaolack, a multi-ethnic, predominantly Wolof city in Senegal. This article examines gender and class in relation to the social uses of space that reproduce social hierarchy, while facilitating challenges to the dominant social order. Challenges take the form of activities such as smuggling, seen as an assertion of regional autonomy. The terms "center" and "periphery," along with the concept of hegemony, are used to explore tensions between structures of domination and assertions of autonomy at both the macro and the micro levels. Wolof cultural values linking hierarchy to physical activity are important to this dynamic.
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In 1994, John Wasmuth and his laboratory colleagues published an account of the discovery of FGFR3, the gene for achondroplasia the most common form of heritable dwarfism in the journal Cell (Shiang et al. 1994). Hailed soon after in... more
In 1994, John Wasmuth and his laboratory colleagues published an account of the discovery of FGFR3, the gene for achondroplasia the most common form of heritable dwarfism in the journal Cell (Shiang et al. 1994). Hailed soon after in the Scientist as the article most ...
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... Human Values Science, Technology & DOI: 10.1177/016224399802300104 1998; 23; 71 Science Technology Human Values Deborah Heath Its Traveling Constituencies Locating Genetic Knowledge: Picturing Marfan Syndrome and ... Deborah Heath... more
... Human Values Science, Technology & DOI: 10.1177/016224399802300104 1998; 23; 71 Science Technology Human Values Deborah Heath Its Traveling Constituencies Locating Genetic Knowledge: Picturing Marfan Syndrome and ... Deborah Heath Lewis and Clark College ...
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Relations of dominance and subordination are social categories or folk models through which the members of Senegalese society come to know their world and to act within it. As constructs of conscious existence they are... more
Relations of dominance and subordination are social categories or folk models through which the members of Senegalese society come to know their world and to act within it. As constructs of conscious existence they are "phenomenologically real, ...objects of direct experience" ( ...
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This article concernswomen's images in ads, their responsesto those images, and advertisers methods of managing these responses. Feminist discourses have been rerouted in the mass media according to the logic of commodity relations.... more
This article concernswomen's images in ads, their responsesto those images, and advertisers methods of managing these responses. Feminist discourses have been rerouted in the mass media according to the logic of commodity relations. Rather than fight the legitimacy of ...
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ABSTRACT Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology. Susan Leigh Star. ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 421 pp.Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones. Nelly Oudshoorn. London:... more
ABSTRACT Ecologies of Knowledge: Work and Politics in Science and Technology. Susan Leigh Star. ed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 421 pp.Beyond the Natural Body: An Archeology of Sex Hormones. Nelly Oudshoorn. London: Routledge, 1994. 195 pp.Science and Technology in. Multicultural World: The Cultural Politics of Facts and Artifacts. David J. Hess. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995. 306 pp.
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This article, based on a collaborative research project on genetic knowledge production, examines the relations between on- and off-line field sites related to three heritable diseases: epidermolysis bullosa, chondrodysplasia, and Marfan... more
This article, based on a collaborative research project on genetic knowledge production, examines the relations between on- and off-line field sites related to three heritable diseases: epidermolysis bullosa, chondrodysplasia, and Marfan syndrome. Field sites include the Web sites, listservs, and chat rooms run by lay health advocacy groups and biomedical professionals as well laboratories, clinics, and support groups meetings. The analysis uses the notion of location work, and the concept of the node that links different elements in a network, in describing a relational approach to multisited ethnography. The article presents three case studies that examine shifting locations between online and face-to-face relations, hyperlinks as a metaphor for interactive knowledge production, and the process of negotiating a networked ethics.
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This article, based on a collaborative research project on genetic knowledge production, examines the relations between on- and off-line field sites related to three heritable diseases: epidermolysis bullosa, chondrodysplasia, and Marfan... more
This article, based on a collaborative research project on genetic knowledge production, examines the relations between on- and off-line field sites related to three heritable diseases: epidermolysis bullosa, chondrodysplasia, and Marfan syndrome. Field sites include the Web sites, listservs, and chat rooms run by lay health advocacy groups and biomedical professionals as well laboratories, clinics, and support groups meetings. The analysis uses the notion of location work, and the concept of the node that links different elements in a network, in describing a relational approach to multisited ethnography. The article presents three case studies that examine shifting locations between online and face-to-face relations, hyperlinks as a metaphor for interactive knowledge production, and the process of negotiating a networked ethics.
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Citation for published version (APA): Göttke, F. (Author), Heath, D. (Author), Ibáñez Martín, R. (Author), Kaul, S. (Author), Sakoun, R. (Author), Sigmund, K. (Author), Thompson, A. (Author), & Yates-Doerr, E. (Author). (2019). The... more
Citation for published version (APA): Göttke, F. (Author), Heath, D. (Author), Ibáñez Martín, R. (Author), Kaul, S. (Author), Sakoun, R. (Author), Sigmund, K. (Author), Thompson, A. (Author), & Yates-Doerr, E. (Author). (2019). The ethnographic fact: a discussion of ethics in anthropological fieldwork. Web publication/site, Somatosphere. http://somatosphere.net/2019/the-ethnographic-fact-adiscussion-of-ethics-in-anthropological-fieldwork.html/
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Genetic nature/culture: anthropology and science beyond the two-culture divide / edited
This article draws attention to the production and circulation of genetic knowledge among three constituencies—laboratory researchers, clinicians, and health advocates— all of whom have a stake in research on a heritable... more
This article draws attention to the production and circulation of genetic knowledge among three constituencies—laboratory researchers, clinicians, and health advocates— all of whom have a stake in research on a heritable connective tissue condition known as Marfan syndrome. National and international conferences provide a context that brings members of these groups together. Such meetings are performance settings, which include the display of visual images depicting various aspects of Marfan syndrome and of the bodies and lived experience of those who have it. The article examines how these images are interpreted, appropriated, and exchanged and how their circulation is both grounded in local knowledge and the grounds for transformative translocal practice. This essay is about genetic knowledge and its multiple locations and about the articulations that link them. It is, at the same time, a meditation on how to map these relations ethnographically. Location, as James Cli...
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List of illustrations -- Foreword / Sydel Silverman -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Anthropology in an age of genetics: practice, discourse, and critique / M. Susan Lindee, Alan Goodman, and Deborah Heath -- Pt. I.... more
List of illustrations -- Foreword / Sydel Silverman -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Anthropology in an age of genetics: practice, discourse, and critique / M. Susan Lindee, Alan Goodman, and Deborah Heath -- Pt. I. Nature/culture -- Sect. A. Human populations/genetic resources -- Ch. 1. Indigenous peoples, changing social and political landscapes, and human genetics in Amazonia / Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Ch. 2. Provenance and the pedigree: Victor McKusick's fieldwork with the old order Amish / M. Susan Lindee -- Ch. 3. Flexible eugenics: technologies of the self in the age of genetics / Karen-Sue Taussig, Rayna Rapp, and Deborah Heath -- Ch. 4. The commodification of virtual reality: the Icelandic health sector database / Hilary Rose -- Sect. B. Animal species/genetic resources -- Ch. 5. Kinship, genes, and cloning: life after Dolly / Sarah Franklin -- Ch. 6. For the love of a good dog: webs of action in the world of dog genetics / Donna Haraway -- Ch. 7. 98% ...