Anthropology and STS

@article{delaCadena2015AnthropologyAS,
  title={Anthropology and STS},
  author={Marisol de la Cadena and Marianne Elisabeth Lien and Mario Blaser and Casper Bruun Jensen and Tess Lea and Atsuro Morita and Heather Anne Swanson and Gro Ween and Paige West and Margaret J. Wiener},
  journal={HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory},
  year={2015},
  volume={5},
  pages={437 - 475}
}
In this multi-authored essay, nine anthropologists working in different parts of the world take part in a conversation about the interfaces between anthropology and STS (science and technology studies). Through this conversation, multiple interfaces emerge that are heterogeneously composed according to the languages, places, and arguments from where they emerge. The authors explore these multiple interfaces as sites where encounters are also sites of difference—where complex groupings… 
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