News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it look like, however, from the inside of a news organization? In The Life Informatic, Dominic Boyer offers the first anthropological ethnography of contemporary office-based news journalism. The result is a fascinating account of journalists struggling to maintain their expertise and authority, e...

Explores ecological impasses and opportunities of our fossil-fueled civilizationIt is more and more obvious that our fossilized civilization has no sustainable future. It is an ecological Ponzi scheme stealing away the lives of countless species and the wellbeing of future generations in exchange for contemporary conveniences and the luxuries of a small subset of the human population. Yet a civilization wholly beyond fossils still seems difficult to grasp.I...

Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to wind power. Their work manifested itself as a new ethnographic form: the duograph—a combination of two single-authored books that draw on shared fieldsites, archives, and encounters that can be productively read together, yet can also stand alone in their analytic ambitions.In his volume...

What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution that dictated how to live and what to think—it also responded to and was shaped by individuals’ needs.In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Soci...

Staying Together: Natureculture in a Changing World is about staying together, living together, and the dynamics and poetics of togetherness. It demonstrates, through a strong investment in nature studies, nonhuman studies, and nature culture and cohabitative readings, a commitment to interconnectedness. The contributors speak of co-habitation, a kind of co-presence that happens for the good of all and has been happening before we realized its prevalence. They argue co-beingness i...

Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory—a matter of concepts, of analytic practice, of medium of value, of professional i...

Les troubles de l'équilibre, d'origine moteurs ou sensoriels, susceptibles d'affecter tous les âges de la vie, sont un défi de santé publique par leur fréquence et leur gravité. Cet ouvrage est spécifiquement centré sur les aspects sensoriels de ces troubles. Qu'il s'agisse de troubles vestibulaires, proprioceptifs ou visuels, chaque chapitre, rédigé par des spécialistes, praticiens et chercheurs des différentes disciplines concernées, traite des concepts physiopathologiques, cliniques et ...

En parfaite conformité avec le programme de DFASM (Diplôme de formation approfondie en sciences médicales) et les épreuves classantes nationales (ECNi), cet ouvrage aborde les connaissances fondamentales en médecine physique et de réadaptation. Il comprend deux parties : - une partie Connaissances qui traite tous les items du programme des ECNi concernant la discipline de médecine physique et de réadaptation. Chaque item fait l'objet d'un chapitre qui commence systématiquement par un rappe...

En parfaite cohérence avec le programme de DCEM2-DCEM4 et les ECN, cet ouvrage rassemble l'ensemble des items des connaissances fondamentales concernant le handicap, l'incapacité et la dépendance. Cet ouvrage présente dans le détail les items 49 à 53 avec des objectifs pédagogiques clairement définis. Il comprend deux parties : - une partie Connaissances divisée en chapitres commençant systématiquement par un rappel des objectifs pédagogiques puis développant la thématique, étayée de point...

As multisited research has become mainstream in anthropology, collaboration has gained new relevance and traction as a critical infrastructure of both fieldwork and theory, enabling more ambitious research designs, forms of communication, and analysis. Collaborative Anthropology Today is the outcome of a 2017 workshop held at the Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine. This book is the latest in a trilogy that includes Fieldwork Is Not What I...

How can humanities scholars help us respond to growing concerns about climate change and fossil fuels?Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied research. Responding to growing public concern about anthropogenic climate change and the unsustainability of the fuels we use to power our modern society, energy humanists ...