Ippolito Desideri: Anthropologist of Modernity

The Responsibility of the Anthropologist.

Rudolf Virchow; Doctor, Statesman, Anthropologist

This report, including an abundance of tables, describes in detail various experiments designed to throw light on problems encountered in the Japanese program of producing BCG vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. Studies were made of production of dried vaccine, of methods of preservation, of virulence, and of potency in guinea pigs. Discussion follows the description of each experime...

Two theories of modernity.

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

A Microbial Anthropologist in the Jungle

Fieldwork Finally, we approach the port after days sitting on the narrowbench of the canoe, watchingwalls of vegetation bending over the rivers that zigzag the jungle, guarded by taller trees behind, with their skirt of shade. The scene is similarly beautifully dynamic under the changing light of the day, in the jungles of Venezuela or Peru. We recognize the canoe port, and the trail leading up...