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Gut Anthro - An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes (Hardcover)
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Gut Anthro - An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes (Hardcover)
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A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for
anthropological inquiry The trillions of microbes in and on our
bodies are determined by not only biology but also our social
connections. Gut Anthro tells the fascinating story of how a
sociocultural anthropologist developed a collaborative
"anthropology of microbes" with a human microbial ecologist to
address global health crises across disciplines. It asks: what
would it mean for anthropology to act with science? Based partly at
a preeminent U.S. lab studying the human microbiome, the Center for
Genome Sciences at Washington University, and partly at a field
site in Bangladesh studying infant malnutrition, it examines how
microbes travel between human guts in the "field" and in microbiome
laboratories, influencing definitions of health and disease, and
how the microbiome can change our views on evolution, agency, and
life. As lab scientists studied the interrelationships between gut
microbes and malnutrition in resource-poor countries, Amber Benezra
explored ways to reconcile the scale and speed differences between
the lab, the intimate biosocial practices of Bangladeshi mothers
and their children, and the looming structural violence of poverty.
In vital ways, Gut Anthro is about what it means to
collaborate-with mothers, local field researchers in Bangladesh,
massive philanthropic global health organizations, with the
microbiome scientists, and, of course, with microbes. It follows
microbes through various enactments in scientific research-microbes
as kin, as data, and as race. Revealing how racial categories are
used in microbiome research, Benezra argues that microbial
differences need transdisciplinary collaboration to address racial
health disparities without reifying race as a straightforward
biological or social designation. Gut Anthro is a tour de force of
science studies and medical anthropology as well as an intensely
personal and deeply theoretical accounting of what it means to do
anthropology today. Cover alt text: Black background overlaid with
a pink organic path suggestive of a human digestive system. Title
appears within the guts as if being processed.
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