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All That Was Not Her Todd Meyers

All That Was Not Her By Todd Meyers

All That Was Not Her by Todd Meyers


Summary

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.

All That Was Not Her Summary

All That Was Not Her by Todd Meyers

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.

All That Was Not Her Reviews

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. -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds *
All That Was Not Her is an exceptionally compelling reflection on the long-term complicated relationship through time between an anthropologist and a key interlocutor. Todd Meyers remarkably gets at the fraught, complex, and entangled forms of connection and difference, offering a new understanding of the interpersonal, ethical, and epistemological dimensions of work undertaken in contemporary medical and sociocultural anthropology. This is an altogether necessary book for these times. -- Robert Desjarlais, author of * The Blind Man: A Phantasmography *

About Todd Meyers

Todd Meyers is Associate Professor and Marjorie Bronfman Chair in Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NGR9781478017899
9781478017899
1478017899
All That Was Not Her by Todd Meyers
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2022-03-15
232
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