Bunkajinruigaku has published several special issues on anthropologies of science and technology since the late 2000s . A search of the J-stage archives for “科学技術(...Read more
This article introduces the second set of papers on the state of the social studies of science in Japan that emerged from a March 2009 workshop on Asian STS held at the National University of Singapore. Read more
Hansen describes his process of encountering more-than-human becomings through Star Trek, and through the study of Eastern religions and their conceptualizations of the world. He offers examples from his fieldwork and lived experience in one of Hokkaido's dairy farming regions to emphasize the...Read more
Life of the Metabolism: An Experimental Inquiry into Mobility (<Special Theme>Hybrid Bodies)
Auther: Gergely Mohacsi
Keywords: diabetes, embodiment, epidemiology, genetic research, mobility, Japan
In the past decade and a half, anthropology, along with other human...Read more
CTS Ecuador is an academic institution whose founding and development the author has been actively participated in, just like we, the authors of the essay...Read more
In this article, Akihisa Setoguchi discusses the history of biology in Japan in terms of three generations of historians defined by their relationship to Darwinism from 1909 to 2009. Specifically, he focuses on their respective assessments of the influence of Edward Sylvester Morse, who...Read more