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Cultural Anthropology
Research from Johns Hopkins University in the area of cultural anthropology published
May 3rd, 2008
"In this article, I argue that a close examination of the government of animals by humans is essential for an anthropology of modern biopolitics: for an understanding, that is, of the many ways in which humans themselves have been governed as animals in modern times. I aim also to work toward a way of theorizing such biopolitics in milieus beyond the modern West," investigators in the United States report. "Relying on cultural and historical materials from South India, I call attention to three domains of local biopolitical difference: the particular conditions of modernity that constitute certain human lives as an animal object of government, the quotidian practices of...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-05-03)
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