Skip to content
An image of a white truck driving down a sand dune

Culture on the Edge

A Peer Reviewed Blog

"There is no such thing as identity, only operational acts of identification." - Jean-Francois Bayart

  • Preface
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Contributors
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
  • Further Reading
    • Culture on the Edge Book Series
      • Claiming Identity
      • Strategic Acts
      • Identity, Politics, Islam
      • Identifying Roots
    • Working With Culture on the Edge
  • Submit

Tag: Human

Posted on 22 July, 201313 January, 2017

Microbes and I

gut-bacteriaA radio report today was on the Human Microbiome Project, which (according to its own website), “is one of several international efforts designed to take advantage of metagenomic analysis to study human health.” What caught my ear in particular was when Lita Proctor, the director for the project, said: Continue reading “Microbes and I”

Share this...

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Print
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
Culture on the Edge is comprised of a core collaborative research group and its invited guests. Together they interrogate the contradiction between the historicity of identity, which is always fluid over place and time, and common scholarly assertions of a static and ahistorical origin for an identity community (whether religious, national, ethnic, etc.) against which cultural change can be measured. The collaborative has a book series with Equinox Publishers.

RSS feed

Recent Posts

  • Just Published: Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility
  • Fabricating Genres
  • When Bread Is Not Bread
  • Hot Off the Presses: Hijacked!
  • Talking The Critical Study of Non-Religion with The Religious Studies Project

Follow us on Twitter

My Tweets

visible links

  • Culture on the Edge book series – Equinox site
  • Equinox Publishers
  • U. of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences
  • U. of Alabama Department of Religious Studies

Recent Comments

  • Nathan Edwards on Why Is the Study of Religion Important?
  • dominick on Why Is the Study of Religion Important?
  • Benjamin David Steele on The Ambivalence of Intellectuals
  • Victoria Frank on Changing Symbols and the Swastika
  • Guess What? – Lazy Susan. on “Guess Who?”: A Game of Differentiation

Culture on the Edge

Culture on the Edge

Disclaimer  •   Privacy

Proudly powered by WordPress
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.