technology studies

From the outset, Cultural Anthropology has published articles engaging with science and technology. For example, an early essay of Michael M.J. Fischer's, "Scientific Dialogue and Critical Hermeneutics" (1988). The essay by Emily Martin, "The Ethnography of Natural Selection in the 1990s" and David Hess' comments capture the critical import of these topics (1994). Also available is a special issue devoted to these intersections, introduced by Daniel A. Segal's "Editor's Note: On Anthropology and/in/of Science." (2001). See also Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit, and Sarah Williams' essay, "Cyborg Anthropology" (1995).

On the Trail of Living Modified Organisms: Environmentalism Within and Against Neoliberal Order
Thomas Pearson
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 4: 712-745
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Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers
Gabriella Coleman
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2009, Vol. 24, No. 3: 420-454.
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The Generic Biothreat, or, How We Became Unprepared
Andrew Lakoff
Cultural Anthropology Aug. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 3: 399-428.
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Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw-Milk Cheese in the US
Heather Paxson
Cultural Anthropology Feb. 2008, Vol. 23, No. 1: 15-47
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Four Genealogies for a Recombinant Anthropology of Science and Technology
Michael M.J. Fischer
Cultural Anthropology Nov. 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4: 539-615.
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