2021
DOI: 10.1111/etho.12317
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The Force of Love: Type II Diabetes in Vietnam as Tentatively Transformative Experience

Abstract: In Vietnam, as in many other countries across the world, type II diabetes is attaining epidemic proportions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Vietnam's Thái Bình province, this article highlights the affective complexities that arise when people strive to adjust to a life with this chronic, debilitating disease. While finding their daily existence radically altered, people with diabetes also actively resisted transformation, insisting on the continuity of their lives. This resistance to transform… Show more

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“…In developing this approach, I draw on Maurice Merleau‐Ponty's philosophy of the indeterminate and on Tim Ingold's framing of anthropology as a discipline that is equivalent to art in the sense that the insights we produce always rely on sensual and imaginative participation in the worlds of others, thereby exceeding the bounds of objectivity (Ingold 2018; 2019; see also Throop 2012). In turning to literary displacement, I am inspired also by the love of literature that characterizes everyday lives in northern Vietnam, where people read, write, and recite poetry, folk songs, and novels on a daily basis, weaving literary interpretations of human existence into understandings of their own lives (for ethnographic examples in the context of type II diabetes, see Gammeltoft 2021). Literary displacement is, in this sense, an integral part of everyday lives in northern Vietnam and has been so, it seems, for centuries.…”
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“…In developing this approach, I draw on Maurice Merleau‐Ponty's philosophy of the indeterminate and on Tim Ingold's framing of anthropology as a discipline that is equivalent to art in the sense that the insights we produce always rely on sensual and imaginative participation in the worlds of others, thereby exceeding the bounds of objectivity (Ingold 2018; 2019; see also Throop 2012). In turning to literary displacement, I am inspired also by the love of literature that characterizes everyday lives in northern Vietnam, where people read, write, and recite poetry, folk songs, and novels on a daily basis, weaving literary interpretations of human existence into understandings of their own lives (for ethnographic examples in the context of type II diabetes, see Gammeltoft 2021). Literary displacement is, in this sense, an integral part of everyday lives in northern Vietnam and has been so, it seems, for centuries.…”
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confidence: 99%