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Coane Fane 5 Poverty 6 Sto, Payee in WI Resa stones rind inthe Unie Site of Aen Fetal Br Artur Kleinman and Talal Acad With whom my agreement rans much deeper than agreement in opinions ‘Thankyou fr your friendship.Adecelgmets Allon: A lntodction 1. How the Body Speaks 4, AChild Lean lines and Lens Death 5. Mena Ins, Pyar Tnsutions, and the Singularity of Lies Dangerous Linsons Technology, Kinship and Wild Spins “The Relctne Healer and the Danes of Our Times Medicines, Markets, nd Healing Global eth Discourse an the View rom Planet Fath Coneson: Thoughts fr the Day after Tomorrow DOD0 efron Inde & 45 3 159 8 203 op“This book was writen over many years in smal is an pices that me together forme onl seen. My main concer hasbeen tours "what ‘ging on” inthe lon-income neghborhonds in Delhi where I ave worked indent capacities for several years I hak the following for their ener- ‘ongyin sharing thi ives and their hough and for lenge beef fom ‘their ungradging criss and support "To he people inthe sven trban neighborhood deseibed here and to those inthe thre others that mere ade later —you hve given me reson 10 alee in anthropology and in my capacity fr feniship “Tote ISERDD members Chant Nand, Panera, Gets, Raj Singh, snd Sani Chatarsed—your work and dedication sustains our common en ‘evo, nd your Sere commitment woth possibly of doing something for those whom you mest inthe course of our work sieving. To Deva, abl, Var, Anand, nd Roopa and ako Papa and Zarghan—dhank yo for cheeflly accomplishing the various tasks that made the wrk at ISERDD a plessre “Tomy clleagues t Joins Hopkins University and eo our graduate st dex 1 thank you for susaining serio neler ie despite all te wa vals ofthe past ew years To Clara Han, Naveed Khan, ad Aaron Goodfellon hank you fo the cae with which you have read some of thee hupers and for your astute "To Ranendra Das, na Dat, and Jtrey Hammer—hank you for you ‘opennes to anthoplgy, which has permite m,n ta, to be open 6 cet tin forms of exami reson.si Adlets "To Swamy Das and Christi Iasere—dhanls or daring my queries ‘on medica mars and being ver ready to engage even when we have vigor- ous dsgreemens “To Sanmay Dat—I am eer grate for the gee way in which you mise ueions—tey are never bouncers bu ihe ike google Ut ae hrc eit “To Mano Mokena, Bran Chan, Dan Taba Nomis Ds, nd Grant Mller graiad for your active participation snd enthusiasts for ein- ing the next generation fon dierent walls of ie "To Yismoen Arif, Adiga Bhandva, Ria Bra, Praisha Bai, Janet, sen, Roma Chater, Christopher Dans, Didier Pasi, Paola Mart eepakMekts, Michel Moon Stain Pedion, Shalini Randers Bhrigupat Singh, and, Jonathan Spencet—dank you for your engagement with my work The dsusions with ech of you ove the themes explored hete wok place in various setingsin a Bechen acs claro, daring wall Seminar room, onthe hoae—but each dscsio let anindelile mark. "To the four anonymous reviewers fr the Pres thankyou for the cre vith which youre hemanasrpand your etic, whih were cal ‘ny revisions ofthe te. hope you recopsze your ingen onthe al ext. “To the Insite of Advanced Study, Paris thankyou for a flowy in 2009 and the opportunity to present my wok in several thoughe-rovoing ‘sons and to lz Imbert and Carlo Sever for epg me fne-ne the plsophi pisos of my argumens "To Anne Love, Stefnia Pandolo, Sandra Luge, Piee-Henst Cas tnd Richard Reckman—your generosity in sustaining dsusons on the ‘heme of madness been rial fr me thnk the ordinary inne ys "To he purtcipant inthe Cita Global Heath Seminar—thak you or the opportunity to look at themes in global eath om a es perspec ‘To the graduate seadents in my prosemina cls in 013~Ghazal Asi Swayam Bagaria, Onder Celi apd Moe Skekon-—ehank you for she semester-long dcusion tha is reflectd in several chapters ofthe bok. "To Andrew Brandel—chank for your inellecalemhusasm a5 well 5 oe you help with che logics of bringing the ook to completion "To the member of the Governing Board of ISERDD—Ranendrs Das, Roma Chater, Kuishase Mambooeam, Amitabh Mukbopadysy, Deepal “Mebta—thank you for your vglnce and your support. Atmolaignes “Toth tf of Fordham University Press and expecially Thoms Lay, ric [Newnan nd Tees Jesonowsk~I think yo fr your care editing and tstnton to deta Tee a tea to work with you "Tothe le Helen Taar—your words echo an echo in more ways than T cans. ms your delicacy of touch "To the lite Harry Mark, whose rosacea Johns Hopkins was ike the pore tT eank you for ehe most memorable dcusons on whichever sub- Jececurfaney took us "Te Ausrey Cat who sadly passed awayin the ninety. Sire year ofr ie when she wasn the mid of wring a book on Wild Bion and Jacques Lzean—your nelle spit and you lowe fo learning hsv susained me since we ist meein 1978 ws bleed wo ave your friendship “To Navn, Lacs, Uma, ya Lalit, Kien and Una Jan ank you for jst eng there ally to Stanley Cavell—your words live ia my work in whatever way 1 can recive them—they give ile ‘The autor wishes acknowledge the flowing pblicher fr general ranting perminion to reproduce revised versione of hates originally p= Tshed in the espetvejounasand books and wo co-authors for agreing to [etme publish che papers only writen ander my name. “How the Body Speaks” (chapter 2) sa revised veson of the chap wit ten jit with Randa K. Das ied “How the Body Speak ness and ifeword among the Urban Poot In Sujets: Esnogpbic Ioan, ‘edited by Joto Bie, Byron Good an Arthur Kleinman, 66-97. Rerey: University of Caloris Pres, 2007. "Mental nes, Pees Insttuios and he Singular of Life (chap- ter 34 resol version of "Mentill and the Urban Poor Paychistri Instone and the Singularity of Life (orcen withthe asstance of Kas handstand Si Bj, published in Encaemmcn of Modern: Empire, [Natn, labia, ted by Saurabh Dube, 402-18. New Delhi: Rot. ledge, 2009, "Dangerous Lisizons: Technology; Kinship, and Wild Spe (chaptr 4) isarevised version of" The Life of Huan andthe Life of Roaming Spits,” poblshed in Rebinking te Homan, elite by}. Michelle Molina and Donal Sweater, 1-s0. Cambridge, Mase: Center forthe Sady of Woeld Rei ons, Harvard Divinity School, 2016,i Abneegmens The Reluctant Healer andthe Danes of Oot ‘Time” (caper) wat previously pblshed as “The Dreamed Gare: The Entangled Liver ofthe AAmil andthe Amhropoogi” in The Garin South i, eed by coe (Copeman and Aya Team 153-55 Abingdon, UK: Roule, 2012 Veena Das Dati, zor5 fiction[Affction: An Introduction “Toarsve at a mde of wting that would allow a wold to be disdsed, 2 vos in which fe pls wth the bests of lfering ad ao with th small Pleasures of everyday iff daeting challenge Such sufeig sIsek wo ‘lesb inthis book isle bob inthe everyday and yer acre it with rene of sings eng not quite right even sens of safocation and forbod- {ng Over the eas, have fered how to besttensiv tothe manner in which fondinaty moments might contain within hem memories of reat wolence or ‘ufering However feng that ssid within the norma and yet not Filly abworbed in ite nach more dificult to decipher have tied his bok fii. The ie did pot come tome as res of eiertethought—rathe, ic became a Kad of bunting word, as Twas sorbed in ny Geld note wile comping the diferent chapecs of this Took {now hat ti ad her this word withow he sensory experience that Simone Weis examples dra om ws ofa sleing that goes beyond physi pain and beyond eves ordinary suring (Wel ros Yee Wel i (Christian ysis and he lnging for God wel athe try of the sing2 Aisin A sco of Chris ae integral to the teste of her thought My attrpe is tose 1 ca ether whl making itmean otherwise. Sai dierent wan this term to lend eet wo an evitonment and wo senities that might some ‘ames callon God bare noc necessarily looking fora Christie gure tit ‘hem on ofthe abs chat is made wp of kind of corrosion of everyday if that ees to ake ey frm many the eae to engage ie. No reryone ‘soumbe to this suring in these way even ifthe sols remarked by ovhat they have had wo endure. Many people within the sume environment ‘move fom one threo of fe marked by leks even abject 9 some ‘ther treba which they sem to engage wth others, lang x bres, look after cite, got vss Iam ier in hese soil movernens leeween thee diferent threshols fife Ge Esposito 2008 Singh 201). My sensei that hough ch eeratare in pychoogy or bevel ocnomics, tres oak what makes forthe resenceof ome people sapped to ech >the more interesting question i, How do che movements beeen hese Alierene resol of ie carry the marks nf fering ended of bea, ll sal acs finde dha ave made i pole fr some to vie while others de? And how hasan every eis been honed out of hee ceaperiencee Pethap the idea of malbor captures the Kind of despuirand snsery tha eneountere, bl ils short of che way in which peopl an ‘user he enegyto make fe habitable for those they fel inte with responsible for, ‘At fist glnce it might apear tat che diferene Beween fin and malic corrsps wo the dilerence benwen a sbjetivexpenence of = fering andthe objecsive condons tha account fr the unegealdstbaton of fering or the dierence berwcen theological move in which fering poses questions of theodiy and an ana that prieges the cconomic and pial conditions ord in pial exnomy- My sake in this book, how er to orerome these distinctions, for I do not wih t brackr ether qoestons relating co insions and objective conditions or hose that reat to experience an the procenes of subjection. conten, however, that ‘one ofthese vers ay be ested a given” in anthropological analy Experience is nota transparent category, for its sential eat of opi makes the wor of tacking mach more ifical han many auhots sume: noe are the character an fnctioning of istiions sac a the tat, he make, dhe neighborood, and the family apparen ight at he begining, ABs: badcin 5 ‘one cannot sil point to them 2 one pint toa char or 2 ale. These bjs emerge through the proces of desipson. ‘Weil (2952) presents the image of aficion a apart that has exab- linked self wih the by. She peaks of how when an apprentice ets hart , Sechperfrthderpon fame oh wk Api con ater consis, we a ISERDD stared by working on seven neighborhoods ‘diferen vel of income ia Dthi in 199 ad thea gradually expanded 0 ‘neue wo more loncome neighborhoods ro ge beter representation ‘of Musi oeighborhods, Subeequenty, two ofthe high-income neighbor: hoods were dropped after the completion of the heh saves ISERDD staff ‘maintained contac wih sample households in all ther neighborhoods and also paripated in various evens of «pul nature, such 5 politcal meet- {ngs ols, mariage and sporsing evens. The st phate of expansion wa {nour whan ISERDD launched another ely on itizenship for which one seghborhood fom the earlier stds and three new neighborhoods were Added, Lhae had ver tle comsac withthe high inome neighborhoods bot ‘others have weten oa the data tat ISERDD collzed. Akhough oe of| ‘rk that wedi ws collaborate the ese ere are fon the erie phases ‘when ISERDD members were stil eaing the eraftof research, such son “ocing sry, ding interviews, and mapping basic fees. As the ier ‘xt seis progressed, the role of SERDD memes changed. They played 2 crucial ale in projec directed by other reserhers in parteship with ISERDD Gishnw Ds, Jeey Harmer, Manoj Mohansn, Michal Walon, ‘Gean Miles, ena Chater and Deepak Meta). projet that helispecial ‘nporenee for me was the wining of ceinary people who had Lie elaca- tion and andy any work experience who were rere fom the sums to set _ssendaried patents ina yt anesthe quality of are of practoners ‘in ral and whan areas Rater than give schematic acount OF these pro- ‘ey, Lam oallow the oe of SERDD members andthe research methods ‘wed to emerge inte following chapters inthe proses ofthe subseantive Aesrpions of heath diet, ad pores Walking ond Greting (One day as Tas selling dough the sees of Kapa colo in West Dethi—a aig mate up of set performers wh fa seed therethrough ‘hein ofa NGO founded by Raj Set the ious deg and ao ‘ate of treet ars stopped otal oa local lnder youre cst his Toca om wets ad in ineviws wih Sethi you ge te sent of magical wot in which pope iv in owes designed as ents in neighborhood that repicstesan imagine life when eee ars were nourhed by ch pons and8 Afi rin lone yt pope however, you spend ime nthe secs ney dy ISERDD membersan I di you see the di andthe salted that donee work the pool of rate gathered inthe suet hacenter the houses he inci men and you ea the counts ofselnes ad det; ou mee he ‘rome wh are inde grees and who often narrate account of peror- “tances iy entice Germany, Sweden, America—bat who supa herein the tres of Kathpu colony with rarely having enough fod, ith equates, with ubeculos, with chen ging astra. Ther marae ‘ing forthe teint presence ofr Sguresuch as Suhiand Mad ‘Sel and shi fae rary. These great personages rie seca figures or Ie the play pds of linda myhology who can ge hage Hous ba who then dpe fo long pris unable to hea anything abot the pens hat stalk dhe every feof thir devorses The money some ars em sporsi- ‘ly ding het sll pe abroad wo represent Idan living as dippers (pen commision and debs hey have incu —ehe lal vores of these ditun ods soe eo ive in sgh eter hoes but do aot re much tater in ems of heath or dacaton Seen One ‘Wenood in astret come ofthis famed laity talking mo locl leader: A young man came and stood next tou looking us over with wisi Pointing Xo hin, the locl leader sad This my sonny on rom the second. Thee 4 Se en olay ete Seay Kap Te Caley ef Woden pest rewtmelnapinecin sain Gem. “Ont gsi hw th nmanty wean a’ comma, Golo ssi ow ih eng eae ial tem ope he = ‘sof De aed Sadar Dep oe Bes pale Bs al se ‘ncn ere en feet rep eh coun dir i is ad ‘ecto tmnt ty no go bck nth ues Th le ‘Sula bne ite te ral les eo pedal hey ne ‘Sra h cySo moe dma sated pane more hey ‘ein tse toc te eel iy mv int ds a ug hs The, ithe pn nan dis yh ne of ae Sed nka apen a fe {2 Now fo enn wong fr hare Cain se Ray Chas Eames, yoko, evo Ach Wal coal ur sr fey Wen sof a at oe ‘tun wtnodmaguinecomanfin- Cason Apis: acing sae thre other children" *So you have for cides?” "Ys, four chien from the second*S0 this your second wif “Ve, the ise one ded. She ‘nd ewoclre."*So you have sx cldren?”*No, the woman die, and her len ded 20." Twas stack y the pronouns—be ident myo dren. Sion Teo Wie ate aow in Punjabi Basi slighly more aflent olny inthe mile of efforts to become wha is known in ofl parlance a regularized” which ‘wou give eset carain entitlement to water, aia, and lercty 3 provide security of tenure oe a dete description of ome ofthese process se V. Das 20142 and V; Das and Walton foro). ISERDD members were reraiing households fr a survey in 201k on siszemhip directed by Michael Walton and me. They were rplaisingcon- sent procedures and fling out demogrphi forms This i what one of them recoded in a ld diary that all surveyors were eeted to mati, The gia entries were in Hind which rants here ‘Uni Ji ftp wea who ely greed to pric inthe samo. We ean fil he tase demogrpic fom. When we cae wo te Coban on ber fide, Urn fey ean ry. "Wht hold Telly? aera four chen at ow have oy he Task, Sood Tome bck nother ies insedty-—"Bhua ote bow en aes anyone comet my dor iste my ey?" Then she ald ne how hee “He ws paying oe the terce wise cin of he eigbechond “Therese da ering borden al jel ber Hi tenon asthe meee an kay Salen Lew my eign ig and showng tht ea film een. He naan and anos then. Myhastand was ot ame bt yes ped me wake i be sty gneve pit. The ante i the ICU ao dl bin The cold ee dy hing Bate bp tv that ih hi fe ‘os oeling We bgp te dso, plee do someting The doctor ake Sor another We nl see boy was aking, bt jot nil we se wat sndwath Then sence hain ces fad inj you nnd CTto Afi dao: scant an The daa at sora wen wea hatin ora (CT ssn ld bedone—are youth decor or am he dtr, be i.e ined he cid be inedatly irgl fr the opal and we abel im pte opel whee a CT san wt dane a they si be ‘hohe on mceely oped yom here ase in be rin | ‘eno ic war tool, Do oct dot ha shy hand oy i (ake ha ns so eephoric exes rhe fhe id thor xan)” Ina secent paper (J: Dat RK. Ds and VD 2083) we dsr the su rising finding tat wile women who had seed cumulative averse epro- {dive evens inthe lives (niscarriages,aborsons, stil, child death) ‘showed very high level of depression, thr spouses did not. We magpsted thatmen do ot register these evens through the language of emocon, and ° thas why mental heath oessonnsires bse on stemized symp ss do ot pare how dey fel In the fst scene we beard a man saying that he ‘hike who ad id ware“es” children refering hie dead wife note ‘suc found that men we mholgieal analogies comparing dnseles 0 atria who ave lid dow their weapons of make txal references fa toe than women do (cf Desa 2003) The dent of child an sera in | woman acount inthe mos quoiin manner, nd grin pour ot along ‘vith acustions and ble for the death. Tis woetan came fom Push ‘asa neighboring locality o Kapa colony where hosehols area ie | more aunt and peopl enjoy beter ccstion an higher incomes Bae his factor dd noc ace ome any ference in how physicians rested them in public hospitals, | ‘Seen Tver We move to another laity in West Patel Naga in a neighborhood very sina to Puja Ba Tas ising fil in which 2 widowed worm, Siti with her al son and her husband elder bother, rash. ested theo man, who war wearing» faye statue) and pjamas with 1 pallorer or warm wrapping He was shivering inthe cold Reading my ‘rome expression looked at hin, Savi sid,"There eno pie ling Coin, Sister He wll ot west any hand-medowns—se, my son even goa Apne ocean osm in ime masale ‘ne sncater fr him but he ys that he can sm Bbw bl.” Tou conversation ic emerged that Prakash had een adie to psy- hnricinsaton asan in-patient about forty years ago becase he sured from hllcinaton and could become violet. His ballacinatons have con= tinaed over this emir period. They says volved aseene in which Allah, ‘the Muslim God, had bcted him. Wha in he ei of his papi drama, rach always spoke in female voice nd enacred fatal atacton ward Islam Beaase of his ove for lhl witesed ene nacement bat ober ‘ws itwas Sai who related all his w me) He was saved every ine ase told mein 2 eamer moment, through the intervention of Shiv, the Hindu God of dextretion, fame fr his conic age swells is ove fr hi dev= ‘tes Sais relat all his with touch of ry, ecatonaly bering into nage T leamed that because Sait was widowed a 3 young age her larger ‘ora (collar in) sine hat 2 male garden wat neceary in the ‘ase, even his male was ngosed with seriou psychiaticmpainnent Prakash was discharged from the psychic instiuion onthe insistence of ‘the fly and against medical advice and moved in the hoas with Sava and Ter son ot hee guardian, He bad enon oul endian Ltn) that ‘lal practioner hd presrbed when he moved ato his area, but he had ‘ether sen a pychinris for the ast thin os yeas nor been ealated for ‘contnsed ection. Sais obsincd the medicine rom loa pharmaci, su ihe became vo woublesome, she administered seeping pls wo pat ie toalep. Is thisa cae of atandonment? Savi, 5 young widow lef with a young son tori, dependent on wht moneys od nk from sevng and l= {ng garments in the neigh and onthe charity of ki, ws compelled > scceptsomoone with severe paschiai disorder as her gun Her both- ‘rin aw symptom speak of miter ways in which ugh relations and Iimporsble desires create between Hindus and Muslin, Abduetion by Allah paps recs he violent scenes of auton and rape ha he might Inve winesed a young child atthe me of the Pain of Indio r= ‘ns he jst eased them (eV. Dis s007). Clery, the experince ofthis ‘man were notaccssbl to me—I was fence of, oth by his ines and by his funy, om any close contact wich him, But I leaned how hs life coal be -enered through theif of hifi of which he w= nominal head ar wellAisin de ein a dependent relative. We ae invited to Fok nota the isin of ecm but tthe reverberaGons that oc intone who ae in elation of ‘Strange incimacy with him ‘he Onkney, the orf andthe Quasi Bont Take a detmur to uy think ofthe scenes I deseribe in relation to recent ‘work that at touches on similar iases. fit consider Elsabech Porn Work onthe noon of abandonment and the posabtes of what se eal “imminent ertque” Povnall is ntereed in understanding suring that she deseries repent 8 “oriary, conic and crody rater than ct ‘tpl cri lden and eolime” (Pinel sor, 152-1 hare har pore ‘nc insight that there ae no orerapping, anscendenaleeporis standing ‘over and above the Bar of cveryley fe through which we might generate ‘mening etiue jst as share he concern wth the fat and vanes ly of every ie (V Das 2007). Bot within this sma Tense a dear Adeenc. wan tn spell out whats sake in hs erence. Toward the nd ofthis sexton I contrast Pov renderngof qua events with what (Gira Han 013) cls etc moment and hen sr othe notion of us ‘vents proposed by Da Col and Femprey (2012) cape (as on aeaera) ‘the slay hat che everyday ean be earned sigh round and taskhow thes sal eninge can morph into catitophic and rival evens. Ba = let me retum o Bovine icuson. Atte concep level, ee every fein my works “evened” (Vas 2007) Povnll in contest, apis to distinguish wha heels “qos evento alleged “evens” Inher words, revere aehing wean st Bape ich ht they he a cera ci tre ting then queens never ake de stn ang ora | the. They nih pp oe it happen Tam aed in hse ga ‘Seven in we sbraeee,bain the ante a a thea on, ‘grep nd sapped, ane and grea eb nd aie ‘dandsn pesca Hheral ars, es ped ri tedcmsroper hte once ea retina pie and i caggenent Poel 011) Aisin ds aan 33 ovine goes on note tha inthe srucuing of seinen der ate i frm, crise and cattrope seem en demand an ei and poll response whereas sui events cin be allowed tops Thus the later need pubic and head of techniques sch as static aggregation o pica ton through the mala oct poll ori response Yet as shes, the deployment ofs sat imagiary © avakenashmbering rial pble faces acon paradox "By uansforming heise dispersed, and unerent- fait te vile, compar, and een, staitcs bere the very are of hs kind of death Rather than understand dis Kad of edly within is ‘omnter (dls ornate, vedo), we demand thatitonform othe spocaclar even and is ethical detates of empathic enfin” (Pinel ort, 153) As an example of how quas rents abcur noone of eae and flict, Povinall recounts that her indigenous Gens do ot aeibute the lethal of hie codiions to the agency ofthe sate since many deaths arent ‘ase by direc vilence—sy, in he hands ofa policeman bur rather by polices tha ser distant the, mpersnal and without agency. “Tae to her theoretical pulse, Poi bl her argument in her book byshowing how ordinary events the lives of er indigenous fiends become “vente” bythe manner in which the state picks thom at for pale interven tine or srectlevel buressents pronounce jgments on them. Puados- sally ie seems o me ht tis ne of theorizing Hef cathe state othe riieged organ of secing” sanding abore the fx of eveyey fe—every "fen i alts he ethnographic dexcripton i he book, tars i in tracks onthe reine ofthe everyday inorder to show how a “gas event” ‘oes or does not become an event” by inducing person who tan in or tome outside agency socal worker ra schoolteacher. There Sgrerare all proxies for the eae or forthe media Ie seems mo me hit what Povicl chives, deste the programmatic statement cited etic, s nos much an {sae fom the asuacon of thee of qos event cits oneete wld Inge rather cht the insertion ofthe at a tanecendenal tegoey tals the etinographic unfolding opel into dhe real of public, Allow met elaborate dis notion with the help of ese seu ha ake oom Povil ext, -Ayeartfore she so vyage dsribalin he it chapter sia yell oman who was dying of rl acer ina Ings4 Afi actin ommaniy—the bina of thn onthe voyage nse the cinder lock se here the dying wom ed were ener foam fred, cee foro sained mates on the oor where dos with sie tines ee, rake lerson se Inthe bechen wer cre rou animal nd ch, ‘pends owes tend ps Rows pane th deo reni eof ook fod and runing trough em ll aris ier enka | “The ise et aden hacked for wek, Threw no hot wee Wes | ‘rated this dying wenn we eed water on tv i cd oe eu, Seon rough al fh were tering empty pl ones new nd wed dhivesabeaces he rlser were stg thy stayed thre any ele ‘othe porch ore rue, sone, hang ove. When the seoleeber creed he hose she ton entered a rghened condition of ete. She fund with whaeshe Iter desc a “ameranment "The sane se witnese, the broken tre fhe ding womans ms the une infoaretre the infront and vermin the ange nd media want en bout reed ber Wh se war befor sh steed the doorane was erent, from nko se wa aerwud, Who or bat wo Hae? Povell 341, 9 “Thehouse where the old woman is dying i described here though the eyes of camera that seems to record fr he sbsteacer,the signs of distepair— ‘he wobbly table the broken telerision mt the bloke eet We an amor foal how the tacher shins back a the sight of erwling cockroaches and stoned men and dog with scabies Te description isn the service of larger ‘argument abou the canons of abandonment under leider, and it teers eet to Povnelis projet thet he reader comes to experience what {twas forthe schoolteacher to ae thi scene inthis way. What ocared fom view in his mode of argumentation is how thi form of bundonment ‘nfl in th ves of kin nid eighbors—al of whom Poviel sins ngage wth bat refit eld wo hr render eth borne thi point farther ethnographic elaboration would cote i the way of beter thecrce ‘on since tion conversion tan even that wl llow a rte of he ste unde late Hann? Aral, Poinli doer noe pare the reader he borrrr digs tthe Blocked tlt andthe ereting coctoacher—o the Mics loco 5 poi a wich he beak occurs for more een on what might eat Tete for sin eft on hi lrg ri ordinary ond ery ‘On soter eso Pavel so sce young man who a feo mali met and by his own adnision an oobi She ‘pines a apument tht develops between hs man and his ler aut He “eh is olyie~be could do what ewan do witht “Hele thes they wero ak: how he unbled with his ie was is uses” {Pornl 21, 154-55) AsPoinl explains thse were is words” "gamble? my by is um however, dew on ferent imagery and arr as ody wa ot an inde pon", ioe your Ton thes ny bod. When you din edly wl safer and eis scp couse of acy couse bole in which we fie of one teay winked another aoe troh empathy ho troegh a oso f+ shared on bol” betwee in aero Poll, ws aay ete How? ere Povnll gives generale esipion ofthe change in pola sad economic arangenens in Astras nde eed of mera ea Crip ander the prime miner, John Howard. Ths changes ave meat there iss rivizatonandindvidulation of welth—there i araling tack of wel and he ores of publ are hve shel rom the sate the rte renin Then gure widh his dep ‘Sons the mcr nel However, ow thee new vale flint the digo) ‘ous communtiswih whom orice had sch long and intimate | onsets ot alle omc since large oii and copie changes tre ply fonponed wi ry och at the young an reerencs wi ‘wnt is poses. Bt jaapston camutd the work of hong fhe hs hgh which he agen esr nnd | Ire Tabor he quo fr anes downto wer the nog a nent iste a hore argent o wheter theo might be bit ino the ednograpy eel, In my reing of het text the epitemsiag | ‘ehnique dt Poni deers wel of mig qua ren ope oes npn uch process edition, cretion of = alan mization of epic by maniplaton ofa baiccannot tell wshow and when young mins sbndoned ofa moh gves py {ashore op dernier ono repaing ie ge of ring epi beet, yan eget betwee young man onde16 Afi A arti sun or hexane of ecompiion in a ying woman house to state pli unde ne liberals, we lose de opportunity of knowing how these qs vents unfold within thes lives and noe there Ki well be argued that "hor gins by leaving behind dhe ethnography atthe points at which Pori- reli does sat—but even atthe sk of making the reader last in the echo fraphie deals I provide in ler chapters I want my reader to enter that Aloorvay and not tm away afer a St inprson. By proposing slower movements benveen the yeneralcondons offi the neighborhoods I ‘kscribe and dhe siagulaty of lives, 1 present diferent pcrar of whacit i to think of antopoogy a4 aeling since” rateal to Porinl for her ‘wondeflformelation of what nebropology oul hes "inuminet cig” Jet not persuaded that on can fall dell wit ethers, especialy with thse Separated by the distance of living condition, clas, and diferent ways of ‘edrng the misforrnes ha alo one. "This perhape he senso tha I gee ped out ito other domains in which Langage wid dhose who are my iteriocutrs in the Ses of gota heath, eat economies or hath poiey—those who ae engaged in thik ing abot how to improve the conditions ofthe poor so the they can enor beter health I recognize that some ofthe wok in these dipline isn ligament with the projets of global institins that are fr es ineested indies that might corrode the everyday feof people ving in low-income secing and fr more inverted in the concern dha those dens can ave sd pose «trea to thos vig in upperincome counties in the Wes, ‘thre or indirecdiyehough the resource that vet be spent on eeping the appar of bosecarity intact. Homever Ido not dink that thes fields of inguiyanditerention area monolith with 0 internal di ferences and conics, What Fave leaned from my engagement with these interiocuors from othe spins has led met combine raonal forms ‘of fikinork in anthropology with srvey nd experiments in the Sell, and to improve new meth to addcess problems that arose in the proces of Sekdwork sel contend that the people I worked within the low-income eighborboods were not flly enclosed within the local ether—theyt00| showed a great nterest in engaging with worlds chat chey comprehended only vaguely or intermimenly bet about which they leaned by ating into we whatever eesources they could muster (See V: Das 20149 and Das and Walton forthcoming for examples of his ind of engagement with the ionloeD, Ain oso 17 Ia the chapters that follow [develop an arguncot sha the experience of aes crete incoherence. Even at this experience ix absorbed inthe ceri there also a ease hat illness goes beyand the rasp ofthe cat- pois tht are aailable—that someone else might know more about what you or soncone you care fri saflering from, Hence, the contradictory impulses found in which people somesimes normalized wha was happen ing othe Bodis—"this isthe body af aging al babies when ehing jet some fever or some dierhe—and s other point satched high and Tow for a remedy sing with these contradictory impulses have come to ve that ethoography might be simultaneously a mode of dwelling ‘ith, brits lsoa mode of striving puns che soil word if ourforms ‘oF belonging ako eral the poly of doube and dappoinenen with the worlds we dell ince Khan 2013 for asa analysis ofthis impulse in diferent conten), Perhaps another look at quasi evens from other perspectives might be helpful Tnarecent bok Car Han (25) givers compelling accoutothe ride lng of ae spd violence in post Pinochet, acoliben Chile in which he wes the den chat dere are ete moments tha ais in the ves of he fais ‘he tudid which coud sometimes he contained throu sable form of id tiered by vended in, fends, or neighbors, but a other nas went Fa teyond wha neighbors or rend could fer by way of help and cre. The canoe mode that successive democrat government in Chile employe, ‘spite the hetorc of he debe omed tn the pele or the pemicons ence tthe Pinochet regime, a perlous ees oa the por These ees were ota result of diet repression but came bout through reorganization of Labor regimes realy avail of ert andthe stoking of consumer spi tions that encoaraged people to ve beyond heir means In sacha envio ‘menta"criteal momen” might appear sy Han, when, for example, ily ‘unsout of uoney and cher 0 fod tobe had on cet. Ora catstropie ines might lead to unexpected expends inthe family ding to il emir borrowing Although there i strong ethic of endurance” he signs and jpn of rach dress real outro the eight boundaries of amily is apd spl imo the neghborhood. Han dese acs feat kindness ‘hrough which neighbors provide Helps by inviting» bengry cdo ‘haze a meal on the pretext that ton mich exe food bal ben cued a By offering to do chore fora harased mer balancing ob and er domes Ati Elkewhere have alle thin of stenvenest ordinary ethic” oe6 Aficio Boscia su ofthe seene of decomposition na ding woman howe to ee pli ‘under Ine libra, we lose the opportunity of knowing how these qs ‘ents unfolded within thes ves and nt ohersIemigh ell be argued that ‘theory gin by lensing hind the ethnography athe pinta which Pri ell des that—but even athe sof aking the reader lot the eno faphie deel I provide i ler chapters I want my reader to eater hat Aoorway and not tum aay ater fs impreson, By proposing slower ‘movement between te general contons of ein the neighborhoods I scribe and the singularity fies, 1 present a dierent pcre of weit i ‘co think of antropology a eling sincera Pinel for her ‘wondefl formation of wha arhropology cos be as"mminent erie” Jet nor persuaded that an cn ally dll with others pecially with thse Sepsrated by the distance of living eandtons, clas, and diferent ways of ‘earings misfrtnes hil on oe, ‘Tiss perhaps the reson that [gee posed out inn other domains in which Lenage with done who ar ny iterlocttors in the Ges of global eal, eth economies, o heath poigy—hose who are engaged in thik 1 thout how omprove the candiions ofthe por so thi they can enjoy Teter heath ecogize that some ofthe work in these disiplne isn ligament wid he projet of global insutations tat are es mterested Indseases hat might cocrde the very life of peopl ving in low-income ‘seins and fr more vested in the concer hi those dienes can rave tau pose a then wo those living i upperincome counties in the Wes, citer del onde though the resources that have wo be pent 08 Izcping che apparatus of bioseerigy intact. However I donot think that ‘here Slde of ingiry and intervention area monalth with no internal dit ferences and codices, What Ihave learned frm ny engagement with the Incrlcutors rom other dicplines has ed me to combine adi forms offeldworkinanchropology with surveys and experiments inthe eld and to improvise new method addres problems he aro in the process of ‘eldvork sel. T contend thatthe people I work with in the low-income neighborhoods were ot fully enclosed within the lea eher—dhey too shomed a great interes in engigng with worlds that they comprehended ‘nly vaguely or intermittently but about which they learaed by putting ‘nua use whatever sources they ould muster (ce V-Dss 20148 and Das and Walton forthcoming for examples of this kindof engagement with the sonloc. Aisi din 5 Inthe chapters that follow I develop an argument tha the experience of ines creme incoberence, Even a8 this experience is asorbed in the very, there is also a sens ha illness goes Beyond the grasp ofthe t= {pores tht are sailable—that someone cse might know more about what {you or someone you care for it sallering fom, Hence, the contradictory jnpulss found in which people sometimes normalized what was bape {ng to their bodies —"this isthe body of aging al babies when teething _etaome fever or ome dirrhea"—and a other points searched high and low fora remedy a sding with thee contadicry imple Ihave come to raize dat elnography might be simltaneoasly a mode of dweling ‘wig, brit isalsoa mode ofsriving puns the soil world aif ou forms ‘oFlonging alo entail the pony of doube and dsaposnnent with the words we dvell in (ce Khan 2012 fo ule analyse of this imple {ina different context) Pethaps another Tok at qusi events fom ater perspectives might be hep Inarecent bok Cars Han (203) vera compelling account ofthe raid- ing of ae and violence in post Pinochet, acoliberal Chile in which she uses the isthe there ate ere moments hat ais in the ives of he fies ‘he sto which enol sometimes econsined through le forms of ‘ered by exendd lin, ind, e neighbors, uta other ies wen at Teyond wht eighors or riends could offer by way of help and care The conic ode hie sycessive democrat goverment in Chie employe, despite the rhetoric ofthe debe omed tothe people or the pericons lence ofthe Pinochet repeal perous ees a che poor These ees were nota result of det repession but came bout trough reorganization of Labor egies, rely aaa of eet and the stoking of consumer spi tions that encoarapl people to live beyond heir means In ach a enon mental momen” might apes sys Han, when, foreampe, family runs out of money and there 0 fod tobe had on ced Ora cataopic les might ead to unexpected expenirs inthe family edn t ill, hear borowing- Although there stron ethic of endurance” he signs nd smpuons of sch dies break out fram the tight boundaries of amily ‘his and spl i the neighborhood. Han dese acs feat kindness "hrough which neighbors provide Belp—say by inviing« engry cid 0 sare mel onthe pretext tht to much eta fod had been caked a by offering todo chor for a arse other talancing job and her domestic Ais Elsewhere Thave called thiskndofaentvenss “ordinary ethics”Ai rio ‘Ve Das zor). Haweve there is aio a darker side wo neightorhood gop “Ha acount, fora woman may come tobe known as a "bad py" hough ‘outer muintsned in face-to-face lations, neighbors might well rm ‘her baks on sud person. In oer words theres agit othe give and tak of everyday fe bors out an eis of posi. Tina thought esponseo sever comments inarymposiv organize by the ural HAU: Jornal of Eebrapi Teory, om her book, Ha (2012) spins why she rested setling on the nin of abandonment used both by Poviel and ono Bel (2008) in thei respective work on the poor oF in cher ways marginalized people Han explain that hth authoretrest the fim iy and neighborhood as smplyregtering the ects of lrger aolibenl rales, whereas for her che eats a the lal lel hav some staneny ‘cen fthey are nocimmune from the ees of neoliberal polices. Inher ow words esis difrncsin eras sano inch accounts i eabrated san efit of cat esa th csr of ‘thin hich pein inn ofthe Rng ps hee, hich han ence en,poldorkae anchored within the a and he mei we otal prong siren shoo ea: Ie canes these le real paces oa es of ensanalty ix forsee sd opains anrt ahr ht a Bl age i retain dco en Pov rate pot proc aerave ‘cl eects tht ne ode tl cntan being geet. la ny ‘thor Tenge tht "cnn nen wich uve fin he ‘sy or ere ene nd nights (Ds) and the ac people deploy shure orc, dro ree ari of ote (liven ars ra ‘pnd our perpen on thsi of ream mater pe ‘tht ony ot be percep ner noon of tana an S03) ‘Letas now tr othe hed notion of qs event Ia tei inoduction wa speci issue on the themes of contingency, moral, and antiaton in ‘red i, Giovanni ds ol and Carlie Hamprey (sors) mediate on reps on if Deen the jal HAL: ral Ei Thy, Se Alison Goran \ Da Got) Alicia hardin 39 ‘he igure of luck and the sll earings hat people might ty 2 engineer that defies every ie fmt acastomed phe of repeton and routine ‘Drawing on Charles G. Seligman foreword to Feward F- Evans Pricieds (Go39) book an Azan wtcherf 4 nora eent of eed ie" Da Cal sn Bamphtey G01) distinguish such “quasi evens” fom large hisses! ‘rents tht are clearly marked as rptres. Like witcher illness too might [boson at "normal evens” or qui evenes dat ake ampece of the everyday that were ocherwise hidden come to ight of reren elaarships—T have characterized this aspect of uncertainty and contiageney 2 the lining of ‘vega ie with shadow ofsepicen. The cicumsanes under which ‘ch dou become woeL-anniisting doabes an he cnc of madness ot Posesion, which some of she following chapters desrbe, testify tothe Teal potential of he everyday not quite eapeured in Seligman’ character zation ofthe way witcher old be abot in the everyday argue that Gall sappcions etal and hurts can eeaate nto something bigger (rithou neces the intervention ofthe stator medi) tha might poison everyday life, Jeane Faret-SaadaS apo) sunning work on witcrafe Aectsatons lo shows Tany ct ileedclones the ct hat everyday He ight be any oe all of the following Fst of lit may be regarded 5 the ste on which small, misfortune tm the destin of hai vers slighty without onsitng full opr rom odinarnes ia sch aes we might consider everyday ie hese marked by odiary rel Lauper 2015), which guides bow peo pleat able care for exch other. Second isthe site on which the tchnol- ‘ges ofthe ite and he marke a fromthe outside disoting close rations tf inhi or locality defined by proxi. Finally, we can ind cursere in ‘he grip of epi as we lose oa foting, thre reveling everyly ie ilo be a scene of tice and illusion. The flloming capes might thus be seen a contibuons othe Further development ofthe theories of ery ay lie and te ye to vlence auntie Te Comest, recent report in JAMA, the Jornal of be Amerisn Melia Aono = ‘marie the se of heath are nda der thei “Gap i nda Health (Cae (Breich 205). The repr ws sed on paper hae ny calleagues