Biography
Associate Professor
BA, MA (Manitoba); PhD (Connecticut)
Dr. Krautwurst is a social theorist with particular interest in the anthropology of representations and the historical confrontations between different means of knowledge production and technology. Recently, he has been researching and theorizing the anthropology of science and technology on PEI; he is studying the cultural practices surrounding information technologies and biotechnoscience and how these practices link to issues of power and issues of knowledge production that affect social relations.
Recent Publications
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[Review of the book Rendering life molecular: Models, modelers, and excitable matter, by Natasha Myers]
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2017
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[Review of the book Mestizo genomics: race mixture, nation, and science in Latin America, edited by Peter Wade, Carlos López Beltrán, Eduardo Restrepo & Ricardo Ventura Santos]
- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2016
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Culturing bioscience: A case study in the anthropology of science
- University of Toronto Press, 2014
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Frantz Fanon
- Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2013
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Why we need ethnographies in and of the academy
- Anthropologica, 2013
Research Classification
- no classification
Research Interests
- Africa
- Kinship and family
- Social organization
- Visual anthropology
- Knowledge and culture
- Colonialism and post-colonialism
- Post-structural theory
- Science and technology studies
Current Scholars in Sociology and Anthropology
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