The Lives of Infamous Children: Living Children's Roles in Cases of Suspicious Infant Deaths and Infanticide in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ontario. [PDF]
Nicholas J.
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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How did investigations into spontaneous human combustion influence alcohol medicine? An examination of the medical and literary discussions that brought the two together. [PDF]
Smith I, Lock P.
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Doctoring Dobbs: Erasure art as anthropological practice
Abstract This essay examines erasure art as an anthropological practice through Doctoring Dobbs, a multimodal project responding to the US Supreme Court's overturning of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In creative practice, erasure removes material from an existing source to reveal something new.
Risa Cromer
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The mental hygiene movement: the birth of global mental health in India. [PDF]
Rajpal S.
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Rethinking the Race–Nation Nexus: Spatial Narratives of Racialised Italians in the United Kingdom
ABSTRACT Nation and race are often theorised as closely intertwined, with nationalism frequently positioned as a driving force behind racism. The article advances an empirically grounded argument that challenges this assumed relationship. In particular, it explores how space, understood as a socially constructed category, is discursively mobilised in ...
Marco Antonsich
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'None Regardless of Reputation Will Be Received': Midwifery and Commercial Bodywork in Urban Scotland <i>c</i>. 1780-<i>c</i>. 1840. [PDF]
Bujokova E.
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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