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BLOOD DONATION, BIOECONOMY, CULTURE - A special issue of Body & Society
Some Anthropology-Matters subscribers may be interested to learn of the
latest issue of the journal Body & Society - a special issue titled "Blood
Donation, Bioeconomy, Culture", which contains anthropological reflections
on blood donation practices in different regional contexts including
Brazil, China, India, the Navajo Nation, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, the
United States and elsewhere.
The special issue provides new ethnographic and theoretical insights on
connections between blood donation and nationalism, warfare, kinship, the
politics of infection, menstruation, sexual minorities, technological
innovation, and shifting economic regimes. An afterword is provided by
Marilyn Strathern.
The contents are listed below.
Introduction: Blood Donation, Bioeconomy, Culture - Jacob Copeman
Solidarity and Distinction in Blood: Contamination, Morality and
Variability - Jing Shao and Mary Scoggin
Glorious Deeds: Work Unit Blood Donation and Postsocialist Desires in Urban
China - Kathleen Erwin, Vincanne Adams and Phuoc Le
Gathering Points: Blood Donation and the Scenography of 'National
Integration' in India - Jacob Copeman
'Please Give a Drop of Blood': Blood Donation, Conflict and the
Haemato-Global Assemblage in Contemporary Sri Lanka - Bob Simpson
Alleviative Bleeding: Bloodletting, Menstruation and the Politics of
Ignorance in a Brazilian Blood Donation Centre - Emilia Sanabria
Emplacement and Contamination: Mediation of Navajo Identity through
Excorporated Blood - Maureen Schwarz
Vital Publics of Pure Blood - Thomas Strong
Failed Recipients: Biomedical and Relational Technologies of Blood
Extraction in a Papua New Guinean Hospital - Alice Street
Afterword - Marilyn Strathern
For further information (abstracts, PDFs etc.), see:
http://bod.sagepub.com/current.dtl
Jacob Copeman
Cambridge University
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