{"id":14766,"date":"2020-05-12T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=14766"},"modified":"2020-09-01T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T13:20:43","slug":"merav-shohet","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/profiles\/merav-shohet\/","title":{"rendered":"Merav Shohet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong><em>Unmaking and Remaking Kinship and Questions of Care for Old\/New Jews in Israel\u2019s Transforming Kibbutz: An Archival and Ethnographic Project <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dr. Merav Shohet is a cultural anthropologist whose specializations in psychological, medical, and linguistic anthropology lead to ethnographically grounded, comparative, language-centered research on affect, morality, and health. In both Vietnam and North America, she focuses on the subjective, emotional lives of specific persons to illuminate how discursive practices \u2013 and the socio-historical and political-economic transformations of which they are a part \u2013 mediate individuals\u2019 experiences of moral personhood and lived possibilities in extra-clinical contexts of care-giving, suffering and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shohet is currently completing a book manuscript, Sustaining Sacrifice, where she draws on person-centered and language socialization research among multi-generational families in central Vietnam to theorize how \u201csacrifice\u201d works as a complex meta-value guiding everyday moral practice that provides continuity and minimizes overt conflict in Vietnam\u2019s rapidly changing socio-economic and biopolitical urbanizing context.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Dr. Shohet is returning to earlier eating disorders research in Boston, to investigate lifespan illness and recovery processes, particularly how discourses of food, economic development, and cross-cultural psychiatry insidiously figure in marginalized people\u2019s lives. Finally, linking her sustained interests in narrative, sacrifice, and care, and the intersections of nationalist and familial ethics, Dr. Shohet is also exploring possibilities for additional research on kibbutz life or other settler communities in Israel\/Palestine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16661,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16636,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14766\/revisions\/16636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}