Emily Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS E |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-7917-6735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 786 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
From egg & sperm to reconceiving medical education: Why teaching about metaphor is essential to remedy injustice
Katherine Verdery at Hopkins 1977-1997
The article describes Katherine Verdery’s intellectual contributions and interactions with her colleagues at the Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University from 1977–1997
Steps Toward a Cultural History of Experimental Psychology in the Light of Social and Digital Media
Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost Cause
SH: During the COVID-19 lockdown, Emily; her husband, Richard Cone; and I have been streaming TV series and then discussing the episodes via FaceTime three times a week. We’ve watched a variety of
Lissa: An Interview with the Authors
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum
You know how they say in certain museums, history comes alive?Yeah.In this museum ... it actually does.What are you talking about?Everything in this museum comes to life at night.Night at the Museum
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished
The Tintometer, Anthropology and the Science of Color
In 1898, physician and marine biologist A.C. Haddon set off with a group of scientists from Cambridge, England. They aimed to study the residents of what they considered the antipode — the opposite
Enhancing the public impact of ethnography
Entretien avec Emily Martin: Aux Etats-Unis, on valorise les états maniaques
Blood and the brain
In everyday Euro-American understandings, blood is both vital and dangerous to the brain. Why, then, are there virtually no illustrations of the brain in contemporary neuroscience that include the blood vessels needed to supply the brain with its vital energy? Photographs, drawings, scans, images, and other kinds of visual material illustrate the location, function, and shape of nervous tissue in the brain in endless variety and detail. But to se…
The Potentiality of Ethnography and the Limits of Affect Theory
Historical scholarship on the banishment of subjectivity from experimental psychology led me to explore a current theoretical enterprise in literary and cultural studies that goes by the name "affect theory." This approach, tied to contemporary neuroscience research, at once joins the effort to banish subjectivity from human experience and introduces the apparently compelling merits of a certain kind of potentiality. The potentiality revealed by …
Anthropology Now: A New Journal for the General Public
Anthropologists Are Talking' About Anthropology After Globalisation
Mind-Body Problems
In this article, I lay out some of the cultural assumptions in recent accounts of mind and brain in neuroscience, in which it is argued that human social activities can be reduced to neural processes in the brain. Since the current dominance of these accounts in the United States threatens the work of social and cultural anthropology and other non-reductionist disciplines, I develop some ways the arguments of their critics can be bolstered with i…
Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science
This essay explores how the distinctively anthropological concept of culture provides uniquely valuable insights into the workings of science in its cultural context. Recent efforts by anthropologists to dislodge the traditional notion of culture as a homogenous, stable whole have opened up a variety of ways of imagining culture that place power differentials, flux, and contradiction at its center. Including attention to a wide variety of social …
The Society of Flows and the Flows of Culture: Reading Castells in the light of cultural accounts of the body, health and complex systems
Reprenant les idees de M. Castell sur la societe d'information, l'A. aborde les questions de la sante, de la biologie et du corps. Sont critiquees la notion de flexibilite, la conception de la reaction face a la societe de flux en prenant l'exemple des vaccinations, du systeme immunitaire et tout en effectuant un parallele entre l'economie et le corps
Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of Aids
The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s
Histories of immune systems
The End of the Body
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles
Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State
In this article I describe the main imagery currently used in popular and scientific descriptions of the immune system in the United States: the body as nation state at war over its external borders, containing internal surveillance systems to monitor foreign intruders. Although in some respects this is a boundary-oriented, internally flat system, in other respects it contains suppressed hierarchies that draw on cultural concepts of race and gend…
The cultural construction of gendered bodies: Biology and metaphors of production and destruction
1989). The cultural construction of gendered bodies: Biology and metaphors of production and destruction. Ethnos: Vol. 54, No. 3-4, pp. 143-160
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles
The End of the Body
Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State
In this article I describe the main imagery currently used in popular and scientific descriptions of the immune system in the United States: the body as nation state at war over its external borders, containing internal surveillance systems to monitor foreign intruders. Although in some respects this is a boundary-oriented, internally flat system, in other respects it contains suppressed hierarchies that draw on cultural concepts of race and gend…
The Potentiality of Ethnography and the Limits of Affect Theory
Historical scholarship on the banishment of subjectivity from experimental psychology led me to explore a current theoretical enterprise in literary and cultural studies that goes by the name "affect theory." This approach, tied to contemporary neuroscience research, at once joins the effort to banish subjectivity from human experience and introduces the apparently compelling merits of a certain kind of potentiality. The potentiality revealed by …
Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science
This essay explores how the distinctively anthropological concept of culture provides uniquely valuable insights into the workings of science in its cultural context. Recent efforts by anthropologists to dislodge the traditional notion of culture as a homogenous, stable whole have opened up a variety of ways of imagining culture that place power differentials, flux, and contradiction at its center. Including attention to a wide variety of social …
Mind-Body Problems
In this article, I lay out some of the cultural assumptions in recent accounts of mind and brain in neuroscience, in which it is argued that human social activities can be reduced to neural processes in the brain. Since the current dominance of these accounts in the United States threatens the work of social and cultural anthropology and other non-reductionist disciplines, I develop some ways the arguments of their critics can be bolstered with i…
Histories of immune systems
The cultural construction of gendered bodies: Biology and metaphors of production and destruction
1989). The cultural construction of gendered bodies: Biology and metaphors of production and destruction. Ethnos: Vol. 54, No. 3-4, pp. 143-160
Pregnancy, labor and body image in the United States
Anthropologists Are Talking' About Anthropology After Globalisation
Enhancing the public impact of ethnography
The Society of Flows and the Flows of Culture: Reading Castells in the light of cultural accounts of the body, health and complex systems
Reprenant les idees de M. Castell sur la societe d'information, l'A. aborde les questions de la sante, de la biologie et du corps. Sont critiquees la notion de flexibilite, la conception de la reaction face a la societe de flux en prenant l'exemple des vaccinations, du systeme immunitaire et tout en effectuant un parallele entre l'economie et le corps
Trump Time, Prophetic Time and the Time of the Lost Cause
SH: During the COVID-19 lockdown, Emily; her husband, Richard Cone; and I have been streaming TV series and then discussing the episodes via FaceTime three times a week. We’ve watched a variety of
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished
The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s
From egg & sperm to reconceiving medical education: Why teaching about metaphor is essential to remedy injustice
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum
You know how they say in certain museums, history comes alive?Yeah.In this museum ... it actually does.What are you talking about?Everything in this museum comes to life at night.Night at the Museum
The Tintometer, Anthropology and the Science of Color
In 1898, physician and marine biologist A.C. Haddon set off with a group of scientists from Cambridge, England. They aimed to study the residents of what they considered the antipode — the opposite
Blood and the brain
In everyday Euro-American understandings, blood is both vital and dangerous to the brain. Why, then, are there virtually no illustrations of the brain in contemporary neuroscience that include the blood vessels needed to supply the brain with its vital energy? Photographs, drawings, scans, images, and other kinds of visual material illustrate the location, function, and shape of nervous tissue in the brain in endless variety and detail. But to se…
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
Pregnancy, labor and body image in the United States
Inequality Among Brothers: Class and Kinship in South China . Rubie S. Watson
Through Other Eyes: Essays in Understanding ‘Conscious Models’—Mostly in Hong Kong . Barbara E. Ward
History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community
The cultural construction of gendered bodies: Biology and metaphors of production and destruction
1989). The cultural construction of gendered bodies: Biology and metaphors of production and destruction. Ethnos: Vol. 54, No. 3-4, pp. 143-160
Toward an Anthropology of Immunology: The Body as Nation State
In this article I describe the main imagery currently used in popular and scientific descriptions of the immune system in the United States: the body as nation state at war over its external borders, containing internal surveillance systems to monitor foreign intruders. Although in some respects this is a boundary-oriented, internally flat system, in other respects it contains suppressed hierarchies that draw on cultural concepts of race and gend…
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles
The End of the Body
Histories of immune systems
The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s
Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture from the Days of Polio to the Age of Aids
The Society of Flows and the Flows of Culture: Reading Castells in the light of cultural accounts of the body, health and complex systems
Reprenant les idees de M. Castell sur la societe d'information, l'A. aborde les questions de la sante, de la biologie et du corps. Sont critiquees la notion de flexibilite, la conception de la reaction face a la societe de flux en prenant l'exemple des vaccinations, du systeme immunitaire et tout en effectuant un parallele entre l'economie et le corps
Anthropology and the Cultural Study of Science
This essay explores how the distinctively anthropological concept of culture provides uniquely valuable insights into the workings of science in its cultural context. Recent efforts by anthropologists to dislodge the traditional notion of culture as a homogenous, stable whole have opened up a variety of ways of imagining culture that place power differentials, flux, and contradiction at its center. Including attention to a wide variety of social …
Mind-Body Problems
In this article, I lay out some of the cultural assumptions in recent accounts of mind and brain in neuroscience, in which it is argued that human social activities can be reduced to neural processes in the brain. Since the current dominance of these accounts in the United States threatens the work of social and cultural anthropology and other non-reductionist disciplines, I develop some ways the arguments of their critics can be bolstered with i…
Anthropologists Are Talking' About Anthropology After Globalisation
Anthropology Now: A New Journal for the General Public
Enhancing the public impact of ethnography
Entretien avec Emily Martin: Aux Etats-Unis, on valorise les états maniaques
Blood and the brain
In everyday Euro-American understandings, blood is both vital and dangerous to the brain. Why, then, are there virtually no illustrations of the brain in contemporary neuroscience that include the blood vessels needed to supply the brain with its vital energy? Photographs, drawings, scans, images, and other kinds of visual material illustrate the location, function, and shape of nervous tissue in the brain in endless variety and detail. But to se…
The Potentiality of Ethnography and the Limits of Affect Theory
Historical scholarship on the banishment of subjectivity from experimental psychology led me to explore a current theoretical enterprise in literary and cultural studies that goes by the name "affect theory." This approach, tied to contemporary neuroscience research, at once joins the effort to banish subjectivity from human experience and introduces the apparently compelling merits of a certain kind of potentiality. The potentiality revealed by …
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished
The Tintometer, Anthropology and the Science of Color
In 1898, physician and marine biologist A.C. Haddon set off with a group of scientists from Cambridge, England. They aimed to study the residents of what they considered the antipode — the opposite
Lissa: An Interview with the Authors
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum
You know how they say in certain museums, history comes alive?Yeah.In this museum ... it actually does.What are you talking about?Everything in this museum comes to life at night.Night at the Museum
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