Women\u2019s, Gender & Sexuality Program; Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies; Center for the Study of Asia<\/span><\/p>\n Psychological, medical, and linguistic anthropology; ethics, morality and subjectivity; narrative and language socialization; illness and recovery; gender, family and kinship; Vietnam and Southeast Asia; food and eating disorders; kibbutz life in Israel\/Palestine<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n View Professor Shohet’s CV – October 2024<\/a><\/p>\n Office Hours<\/a><\/p>\n Dr. Merav Shohet is a cultural anthropologist whose specializations in psychological, medical, and linguistic anthropology lead to ethnographic research on affect, morality, and health. In Vietnam, North America, and, most recently, Israel\/Palestine, her studies of care and gendered subjectivities illuminate how communicative practices\u2013and the socio-historical and political-economic transformations of which they are a part\u2013mediate individuals\u2019 experiences of moral personhood and lived possibilities in contexts of care-giving, suffering and recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n Dr. Shohet\u2019s first book,\u00a0Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam<\/a><\/i>, draws on person-centered and language socialization research among multi-generational families to theorize how \u201csacrifice\u201d works as a complex meta-value guiding everyday moral practice. Here, affirmations of love and silence-filled stories of intimacy and care entrench hierarchies and asymmetrical reciprocity, working to minimize overt conflict and provide a sense of continuity in Vietnam\u2019s rapidly urbanizing late-socialist context.<\/span><\/p>\n Extending her interests in narrative, ethics, and inequalities, Dr. Shohet has recently been working on care, aging, and the end of life in changing kibbutz communities, including under war conditions, and on the pandemic\u2019s harmful, syndemic effects on racialized end-stage kidney disease patients in Greater Boston, where she documented chronic terminal patients\u2019 struggles to flourish. In future, she also hopes to return to her earlier eating disorders research, to investigate lifespan illness and recovery processes, and how discourses of food, economic development, and cross-cultural psychiatry insidiously figure in marginalized people\u2019s lives.<\/span><\/p>\nAreas of Expertise<\/h3>\n
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