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Article publié sur le site de l'Association for Political and Legal Anthropology ; International audience

Article publié sur le site de l'Association for Political and Legal Anthropology ; International audience

Article publié sur le site de l'Association for Political and Legal Anthropology ; International audience

International audience ; Article publié sur le site de l'Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

In this article, we trace encounters between humans and phantasmic entities in hospitals in Indian-occupied and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. In Pakistan, the presence of spectral beings (jinni) in hospitals is linked to state and sectarian violence, which precipitates ruptures between jinni and human worlds. Such breaches permit jinni to manifest in the medical present, where insecure actors harness them to ventriloquize unspoken anxieties. In Indian-occupied Kashmir, jinn-like, chronically mentally ill patients haunt psychiatric modernization projects. In embracing a jinneaological approach to medical crises, we theorize hospitals as multi-temporal and multi-dimensional spaces called "tesseracts," in which human-nonhuman encounters serve existential and political purposes.

Community and health worker engagement will be key to polio eradication in Karachi, Pakistan. In this study, the authors conducted participant observation, interviews, and a document review in SITE Town, Karachi, an area that in recent years has harbored poliovirus. SITE's diverse population includes large numbers of internally displaced persons who are disproportionately affected by polio and are more likely than other populations to refuse the polio vaccine. Vaccine acceptance and worker motivation in SITE Town were shaped by the discrepancy in funding and attention for polio eradication campaigns as compared with routine services. Parental vaccine refusals stemmed from a distrust of government and international actors that provided few services but administered polio vaccine door-to-door every month. Addressing this discrepancy could therefore be key to eliminating polio. The authors suggest short-term improvements to routine immunization and sanitation in key polio endemic areas, coupled with a longterm focus on sustainable improvements to routine immunization and broader health services.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Global Medicines in Local Cultures -- Chapter 1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian Clinic -- Chapter 2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian Hospital -- Chapter 3 The Cosmopolitan Hospital -- Chapter 4 "Dangerous Disease" Epilepsy in Asante -- Chapter 5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases Compared -- Part Two. Care Giving and Hospital Labor -- Chapter 6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital Benin -- Chapter 7 Medical "Errands" among Women with Cervical Cancer in Guatemala -- Chapter 8 Routinized Caring or a "Call" to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania -- Chapter 9 "We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have" Hospital Care in Mexico -- Part Three. Hospitals and the Patient -- Chapter 10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, France -- Chapter 11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent's Take on Hospital Care Gone Wrong -- Chapter 12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public Hospitals -- Chapter 13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital -- Afterword -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. Performing Rituals -- Chapter 1 Black Magic, Divination and Remedial Reproductive Agency in Northern Pakistan -- Chapter 2 Preparing for the Hajj in Contemporary Tunisia: Between Religious and Administrative Ritual -- Chapter 3 "There Used To Be Terrible Disbelief ": Mourning and Social Change in Northern Syria -- Chapter 4 Manifestations of Ashura Among Young British Shi 'is -- Chapter 5 The Ma'ruf: An Ethnography of Ritual (South Algeria) -- Chapter 6 The Sufi Ritual of the Darb al-shish and the Ethnography of Religious Experience -- Chapter 7 Preaching for Converts: Knowledge and Power in the Sunni Community in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 8 Worshipping the Martyr President: The Darih of Rafiq Hariri in Beirut -- Chapter 9 Staging the Authority of the Ulama: The Celebration of the Mawlid in Urban Syria -- Part Two. Contextualising Interactions -- Chapter 10 The Salafi and the Others: An Ethnography of Intracommunal Relations in French Islam -- Chapter 11 Describing Religious Practices among University Students: A Case Study from the University of Jordan, Amman -- Chapter 12 Referring to Islam in Mutual Teasing: Notes on an Encounter between Two Tanzanian Revivalists -- Chapter 13 Salafis as Shaykhs: Othering the Pious in Cairo -- Chapter 14 Ethics of Care, Politics of Solidarity: Islamic Charitable Organisations in Turkey -- Chapter 15 Making Shari'a Alive: Court Practice under an Ethnographic Lens -- Chapter 16 Referring to Islam as a Practice: Audiences, Relevancies and Language Games within the Egyptian Parliament -- Chapter 17 Contesting Public Images of 'Abd al-Halim Mahmud (1910-78): Who is an Authentic Scholar? -- Part Three. The Ethnography of History -- Chapter 18 Possessed of Documents: Hybrid Laws and Translated Texts in the Hadhrami Diaspora -- About the Contributors -- Index