Tag: Latin America

Bioethnography and the Birth Cohort: A Method for Making New Kinds of Anthropological Knowledge about Transmission (which is what anthropology has been about all along)

Post author Elizabeth F.S. Roberts
Post date November 19, 2019

This article is part of the following series: Excavating and (re)creating the biosocial: Birth cohorts as ethnographic object

© Elizabeth F. S. Roberts

These are pots and dishes. They transmit food and love. They transmit lead. They transmit class. They transmit enduring inequality and new forms of environmental degradation. These transmissions are conveyed through food, love, and chemical leaching. These pots are for sale in working class neighborhoods in Mexico City. They are passed around in families. They …

Tags Bioethnography, Birth cohorts, Knowledge Production, Latin America, Mexico, Transmission

Lectures

The Green Tide as a Boundary Object: Feminism Beyond the Curse of the Left.

Post author Mara Dicenta
Post date March 13, 2019

Science and Technology Studies (STS) can engage with social movements in a variety of forms. STS scholarship has provided methods, theories, and concepts related to how information and values are communicated between scientific disciplines and affected communities, how those communities are formed and/or dissolved around matters of concern, how they are (not) listened to and (not) legitimated, and how issues …

Tags Feminism, Latin America, STS

Features

On Responsibility (and Laziness)

Post author Anne E. Pfister
Post date February 5, 2019

This article is part of the following series: Disability from the South: Toward a Lexicon

I am a cultural anthropologist who conducts research with deaf children and their families in Mexico City. Echarle ganas is a Mexican colloquial expression that roughly translates to “you have to give it your all.” “Échale ganas!” or “work at it!” is often heard as a rallying cry when things are not going as desired. This saying is …

Tags deaf culture, Disability, Language, Latin America, Mexico

Features

The Work of Care

Post author Helena Fietz
Post date January 29, 2019

This article is part of the following series: Disability from the South: Toward a Lexicon

I have been conducting research on intellectual disability and care practices among families of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds in Porto Alegre, Brazil, since 2014.¹ Despite the many differences in family arrangements, class, race, and sociocultural background, most of my interlocutors share a common concern: “Who will care for my child once I am no longer able to do so?” As …

Tags Brazil, Care/caregiving, Disability, Latin America, Temporality

Features

Agitated children, turbulent trajectories: Towards a comparison between Europe and South America – a workshop report

This article describes the main discussions and contributions of the first workshop of the International Research Network on Disruptive Behaviours. The workshop was held at the “Centre for Research in Medicine, Science, Health, Mental Health and Society” (CERMES-3) in Paris, in January 2017. The second network workshop will be organised by the “Transdisciplinary Laboratory in Social Practices and …

Tags Childhood, Conference, Development/lifecourse, Education, Europe, Latin America, Medicalization, Pharma, Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychotherapy

Features

Ultrasound as a diagnostic tool in Brazil: celebrating babies, blurring problems.

Post author Ilana Löwy
Post date April 30, 2018

This article is part of the following series: Diagnostic stories

This is a photograph of a publicity for a “street corner” obstetrical ultrasound in Brazil. It proclaims: “ultrasound examinations at low prices.” The advertised “low prices” can be indeed be very low: some clinics charge less than US $10 for an ultrasound examination. The aim such examination is to confirm the existence of a pregnancy, provide reassurance, but above all …

Tags Brazil, Diagnosis, Latin America, Reproduction, Reproductive health