Deborah Heath
Biographic Data
| ID | 3618628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Heath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Heath |
| SIGNATURE | HEATH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lewis & Clark College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Introduction to Special Collection: Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-Production of Plant-People Lifeworlds
Ethnobiology has long recognized that human and plant relationships produce particular ways of living. The discipline is increasingly asking how these lifeworlds reflect and create sociopolitical formations-from low-impact hunting-gathering or slash-and-burn agriculture, to colonial plantations and runaway settlements, to contemporary agribusiness and alternative biodynamic agriculture. In this special issue, we propose the concept plant-anthropo…
French Pigs, DIY Butchers, and Foie Gras Wars in Portland, Oregon
The Naturecultures of Foie Gras: T echniques of the B ody and a C ontested E thics of C are
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of “techniques of the body” to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural …
Techne, Technoscience, and the Circulation of Comestible Commodities: An Introduction
In this "In Focus" introduction, we present the ways in which discourses of techne (craft or artisanship) and technoscience mediate the production, consumption, and circulation of food and drink. The authors in this "In Focus" examine food and drink as localized instances of large-scale spatial and temporal processes and as cultural-material markers of power/knowledge. Our work on the current controversies surrounding foie gras exemplifies how sp…
Genetic Nature/Culture
Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Nodes and Queries: Linking Locations in Networked Fields of Inquiry
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 …
Locating Genetic Knowledge: Picturing Marfan Syndrome and Its Traveling Constituencies
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 vis…
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Science Studies: Beyond the War Zone
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
The Politics of Appropriateness and Appropriation: Recontextualizing women's dance in urban Senegal
Recontextualized in various settings, the dances and poems that women perform in urban Senegal reveal a struggle over shifting notions of appropriateness. Set apart from everyday practice, they are occasions for reflexive awareness, not only for dancers and their audiences, but also for the ethnographer, particularly in the role of participant-performer. [dance, gender, performance, hegemony, reflexivity, Senegal
Micro-anatomo politics: Mapping the human genome project
An introduction to bio-politics: The anthropology of the new genetics and immunology
Fashion, anti-fashion, and heteroglossia in urban Senegal
This article focuses on the language of dress among women in urban Senegal and on the social uses of cloth that it entails. Using Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia as an organizing concept, it examines the social construction of hegemony as manifested in the practice known as sañse, dressing up or dressing well. The social practices of dress and the production and decoration of textiles embody a dialogue between dominant and subordinate or opposi…
Commodity feminism
This article concerns women's images in ads, their responses to 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 feminist discourse, advertisers have attempted to channel key aspects of that discourse into semiotic markers that can be attached to commodity brandnames. In today's crowded corp…
Widows in African Societies: Choices and Constraints. Betty Potash, ed
Spatial Politics and Verbal Performance in Urban Senegal
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Donna Hara-WAY
Fashion, anti-fashion, and heteroglossia in urban Senegal
This article focuses on the language of dress among women in urban Senegal and on the social uses of cloth that it entails. Using Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia as an organizing concept, it examines the social construction of hegemony as manifested in the practice known as sañse, dressing up or dressing well. The social practices of dress and the production and decoration of textiles embody a dialogue between dominant and subordinate or opposi…
Techne, Technoscience, and the Circulation of Comestible Commodities: An Introduction
In this "In Focus" introduction, we present the ways in which discourses of techne (craft or artisanship) and technoscience mediate the production, consumption, and circulation of food and drink. The authors in this "In Focus" examine food and drink as localized instances of large-scale spatial and temporal processes and as cultural-material markers of power/knowledge. Our work on the current controversies surrounding foie gras exemplifies how sp…
The Politics of Appropriateness and Appropriation: Recontextualizing women's dance in urban Senegal
Recontextualized in various settings, the dances and poems that women perform in urban Senegal reveal a struggle over shifting notions of appropriateness. Set apart from everyday practice, they are occasions for reflexive awareness, not only for dancers and their audiences, but also for the ethnographer, particularly in the role of participant-performer. [dance, gender, performance, hegemony, reflexivity, Senegal
Micro-anatomo politics: Mapping the human genome project
Nodes and Queries: Linking Locations in Networked Fields of Inquiry
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 Naturecultures of Foie Gras: T echniques of the B ody and a C ontested E thics of C are
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of “techniques of the body” to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural …
Genetic Nature/Culture
Locating Genetic Knowledge: Picturing Marfan Syndrome and Its Traveling Constituencies
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 vis…
An introduction to bio-politics: The anthropology of the new genetics and immunology
Spatial Politics and Verbal Performance in Urban Senegal
Introduction to Special Collection: Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-Production of Plant-People Lifeworlds
Ethnobiology has long recognized that human and plant relationships produce particular ways of living. The discipline is increasingly asking how these lifeworlds reflect and create sociopolitical formations-from low-impact hunting-gathering or slash-and-burn agriculture, to colonial plantations and runaway settlements, to contemporary agribusiness and alternative biodynamic agriculture. In this special issue, we propose the concept plant-anthropo…
French Pigs, DIY Butchers, and Foie Gras Wars in Portland, Oregon
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Science Studies: Beyond the War Zone
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
Widows in African Societies: Choices and Constraints. Betty Potash, ed
Spatial Politics and Verbal Performance in Urban Senegal
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science. Donna Hara-WAY
Commodity feminism
This article concerns women's images in ads, their responses to 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 feminist discourse, advertisers have attempted to channel key aspects of that discourse into semiotic markers that can be attached to commodity brandnames. In today's crowded corp…
Fashion, anti-fashion, and heteroglossia in urban Senegal
This article focuses on the language of dress among women in urban Senegal and on the social uses of cloth that it entails. Using Bakhtin's notion of heteroglossia as an organizing concept, it examines the social construction of hegemony as manifested in the practice known as sañse, dressing up or dressing well. The social practices of dress and the production and decoration of textiles embody a dialogue between dominant and subordinate or opposi…
Micro-anatomo politics: Mapping the human genome project
An introduction to bio-politics: The anthropology of the new genetics and immunology
The Politics of Appropriateness and Appropriation: Recontextualizing women's dance in urban Senegal
Recontextualized in various settings, the dances and poems that women perform in urban Senegal reveal a struggle over shifting notions of appropriateness. Set apart from everyday practice, they are occasions for reflexive awareness, not only for dancers and their audiences, but also for the ethnographer, particularly in the role of participant-performer. [dance, gender, performance, hegemony, reflexivity, Senegal
Science Studies: Beyond the War Zone
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
Locating Genetic Knowledge: Picturing Marfan Syndrome and Its Traveling Constituencies
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 vis…
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for Cultural Anthropology
Nodes and Queries: Linking Locations in Networked Fields of Inquiry
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 …
Genealogical Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet
Genetic Nature/Culture
Techne, Technoscience, and the Circulation of Comestible Commodities: An Introduction
In this "In Focus" introduction, we present the ways in which discourses of techne (craft or artisanship) and technoscience mediate the production, consumption, and circulation of food and drink. The authors in this "In Focus" examine food and drink as localized instances of large-scale spatial and temporal processes and as cultural-material markers of power/knowledge. Our work on the current controversies surrounding foie gras exemplifies how sp…
The Naturecultures of Foie Gras: T echniques of the B ody and a C ontested E thics of C are
Based on our fieldwork with foie gras producers in the United States and France, this paper examines the relations among social, technical and nonhuman animal worlds in foie gras production. Expanding Mauss's classic conception of “techniques of the body” to include techniques that link animal and human bodies, we consider insights from science studies scholars like Haraway, Latour and Goodman. Posing the question of whether foie gras is natural …
French Pigs, DIY Butchers, and Foie Gras Wars in Portland, Oregon
Introduction to Special Collection: Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-Production of Plant-People Lifeworlds
Ethnobiology has long recognized that human and plant relationships produce particular ways of living. The discipline is increasingly asking how these lifeworlds reflect and create sociopolitical formations-from low-impact hunting-gathering or slash-and-burn agriculture, to colonial plantations and runaway settlements, to contemporary agribusiness and alternative biodynamic agriculture. In this special issue, we propose the concept plant-anthropo…
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