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Margaret Everett: Publications

Journal Articles

Margaret Everett.  “They Say it Runs in the Family: Diabetes and Inheritance Among Indigenous Oaxacans.” Social Science and Medicine (2011) doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.021.

Margaret Everett, Angie Mejia, Olivia Quiroz. “Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity: Lessons from the North Portland HEAL Program.” Practicing Anthropology 31:4(Fall 2009): 21-26.

Margaret Everett. “The ‘I’ in the Gene: Divided Property, Fragmented Personhood and the Making of a Genetic Privacy Law.” American Ethnologist 34:2(Spring 2007):373-384.

Margaret Everett. “Doing Bioethics: Challenges for Anthropology.” Human Organization 65:1 (Spring 2006): 46-54.

Margaret Everett. “Can You Keep a Genetic Secret? The Genetic Privacy Movement.” Journal of Genetic Counseling 13:4(2004): 273-292.

Margaret Everett. “The Social Life of Genes: Privacy, Property and the New Genetics” Social Science and Medicine 56(2003): 53-65.

Margaret Everett. “The Gene Business: The Body as Property in the Biotech Century.” General Anthropology: Bulletin of the General Anthropology Division 9:2(2003): 1-5.

 Margaret Everett. “Evictions and Human Rights: Land Disputes in Bogotá, Colombia.” Habitat International 25:4(October 2001): 1-19.

Margaret Everett. “Development Visions on the Urban Frontier.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 21:2(November 1998): 1-10.

Margaret Everett.  “Latin America On-Line: The Internet, Development and Democratization.” Human Organization 57:4 (Winter 1998): 385-393.

Margaret Everett. “The Real World: Teaching Anthropology as if it Mattered.” Practicing Anthropology 20:1(Winter 1998): 42-43.

Margaret Everett. “The Ghost in the Machine: Agency in ‘Poststructural’ Critiques of Development.” Anthropological Quarterly 70:3(July 1997): 137-151.

Book Chapters

Margaret Everett. “Desalojos Forzosos y Derechos Humanos en Colombia.” In Perspectivas Urbanas: Temas Críticos en Políticas de Suelo en América Latina. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. 2007, pages 125-129.

Margaret Everett. “The Social Life of Genes: Privacy, Property and the New Genetics.” In Information Ethics: Privacy, Property and Power, Adam Moore, ed. University of Washington, 2005.

Margaret Everett. “Memorias del Futuro: La Nostalgia y la Planeación Urbana.” In La Ciudad Observada: Violencia, Cultura y Política, Yesid Campos and Ismael Ortiz, eds. Bogotá: Tercer Mundo Editores, 1998, pages 439-462.

Book Reviews

Review of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, by Kaushik Sunder Rajan. Journal of the American Medical Association 296:18(November 8, 2006):2263-2264.

Manuscripts Under Review

Roy Watters and Margaret Everett. “Santa Muerte: The Origins of A New Cult in Mexico’s Religious Marketplace.” Submitted to Journal of Latin American Anthropology,( under review)

Margaret Everett and Meg Merrick. “Participatory Research to Reduce Childhood Obesity.” Book chapter as part of the Community Engaged Research Scholars project, Center for Academic Excellence (Kevin Kecskes and Amy Driscoll, proposed editors.

Other Publications

“In My Opinion: Cells are not my son, but still deserve dignity.” Oregonian, June 2, 1999.

“Evictions and Human Rights in Colombia.” Landlines: Newsletter of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 11:6(November 1999): 6-8.

 “Evictions and Human Rights: An Ethnographic Study of Development and Land Disputes in Bogotá, Colombia.” Lincoln Institute Research Report. Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 1999 (30 pages).

With Maria Antonia de Obregón and Nelson Ramírez. “Boceto para un Retrato de Mario Calderón.” Magazin Dominical, El Espectador 745(24 August 1997): 4-6.