While studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was Not Her Meyers presents an intimate ethnographic portrait of Beverly, stitching together small moments they shared scattered over months and years and, following her death, into the present. He meditates on the possibilities of writing about someone who is gone—what should be represented, what experiences resist rendering, what ethical challenges exist when studying the lives of others. Meyers considers how chronic illness is bound up in the racialized and socioeconomic conditions of Beverly’s life and explores the stakes of the anthropologist’s engagement with one subject. Even as Meyers struggles to give Beverly the final word, he finds himself unmade alongside her. All That Was Not Her captures the complexity of personal relationships in the field and the difficulty of their ending.
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Todd Meyers offers an intimate ethnographic portrait of a woman he met during his fieldwork as a way to explore the complexity of the anthropologist’s personal relationships with their subjects and how to speak of and to someone who is gone.
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Undoing  ix 1. These Moments Formed between Us  1 2. Still Life  13 3. The Accident of Contact  41 4. Resuscitations  63 5. A Living Room  85 6. Thoughts of Suicide  97 7. [ . . . ]  123 8. Breathing Feels like a Falsehood  133 9. Notes on a New Moralism  151 10. Black Figurine  175 Reassembling  199 Notes  203 Bibliography  215
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“This beautiful, smart, and unique book cuts into ethnography and race in powerful and necessary ways, stepping off the plane of current critical race theory into risky, generative thinking and writing. An intimate, frank account of a situation and relationship beyond the convenient stability of an understanding or meaning, All That Was Not Her is an absolutely compelling read.”
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ISBN
9781478015277
Publisert
2022-02-22
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Duke University Press
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431 gr
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Todd Meyers is Associate Professor and Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.