This collection of anthropology news stories covers a wide range of topics, including Indigenous land rights, environmental justice, cultural preservation, the impact of colonialism, and the evolving relationship between humans and animals.
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, an anthropologist explores how the Shuar people are betting on dragon fruit cultivation to reclaim economic autonomy and political sovereignty.In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus.A translator’s notes are refashioned into a poem calling for justice for Indigenous peoples in the Philippines displaced by a megadam.
In a time of heightened threats to reproductive rights, a women’s health scholar and mother of two comes face to face with her uterus.It is cool and dark there, suitable for a preserved organ. Before my hysterectomy in 2019, I kept it in its original container, my pelvis. For most of my lifetime, since before my birth, it nested softly in the company of my ovaries, fallopian tubes, bladder, and rectum.
I was gendered female at birth and raised as such in the United States. I identify as a woman, and this is important for the story I tell and the ways that my body has been viewed and treated by health care professionals. I am a mother to two young adult daughters, and I am also a woman who has terminated two pregnancies. The first was at age 19 after a diaphragm malfunction and the second was in my late 20s, during an emotionally abusive relationship unsuitable for progeny.
The procedure involved transvaginal insertion of small, stint-like objects into each fallopian tube, designed to cause scarring and blockage, and thus to prevent contact between egg and sperm that might result in pregnancy. Though I favor vasectomy as a safer alternative to more intrusive forms of contraception and sterilization targeting people with uteruses, it was important to me that I not become pregnant again. I was 38 years old and certain I did not want more children.
On a sunny day in October 2023, I donned the respirator mask and safety goggles. This alarmed my dogs, who eyed me as if I was an intruder intent on stealing their biscuits. Warily, they followed me from the kitchen into the bedroom, where I removed the container from my dresser. It was about the size of a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket and enveloped in hazard tape. I carried it gingerly into the bathroom, locking the door behind me to keep out the dogs.
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