Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman
Veena Das (Indian anthropologist) and Arthur Kleinman (American psychiatrist and anthropologist) are leading figures in medical anthropology, known for influential work on illness, suffering, care, ethics, and the everyday, and for cross-cultural scholarship bridging anthropology and medicine.
Books
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1. Remaking A World
Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery
A collection of ethnographic inquiries into how extreme violence and chronic deprivation fracture everyday life and subjectivity, and how individuals and communities painstakingly reconstruct the social fabric afterward. Through intimate portraits from diverse settings, it traces fragile, often uneven processes of repair that take shape in families, neighborhoods, and institutions, emphasizing the ethical ambiguities and political constraints that shape recovery. Moving beyond clinical notions of trauma, it attends to the ordinary practices, speech, and silences through which memory, suffering, and hope are negotiated. The result is a nuanced account of remaking social worlds amid ongoing uncertainty and state complicity or neglect.
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