[Linganth] Merav Shohat's new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
CaMP anthropology blog is downright smug to be able to post an interview 
so quickly upon publication
Merav Shohat's new book, Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care 
and Limits of Love in Vietnam.


Please read Annemarie Samuel's interview with Merav Shohat here:
https://campanthropology.org <https://campanthropology.org>

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:
How do families remain close when turbulent forces threaten to tear them 
apart?
  In this groundbreaking book based on more than a decade of research 
set in Vietnam,
  Merav Shohet explores what happens across generations to families that 
survive imperialism,
  war, and massive political and economic upheaval. Placing personal 
sacrifice at the center
  of her story, Shohet recounts vivid experiences of conflict, love, and 
loss. In doing so, her work
challenges the idea that sacrifice is merely a blood-filled religious 
ritual or patriotic act. Today,
domestic sacrifices—made largely by women—precariously knot family 
members together by
  silencing suffering and naturalizing cross-cutting gender, age, class, 
and political hierarchies.
In rethinking ordinary ethics, this intimate ethnography reveals how 
quotidian acts of sacrifice
help family members forge a sense of continuity in the face of trauma 
and decades of dramatic change.
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