Annemarie Samuels
Biographic Data
| ID | 648663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annemarie Samuels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annemarie |
| FAMILY NAME | Samuels |
| SIGNATURE | SAMUELS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7379-5591 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 287 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Sibling Relationships After the Death of a Parent During Childhood
After the death of a parent, children have to adjust to changes in family roles and dynamics as a result of the loss, including the sibling relationship. The current qualitative study explored, using joint interviews with sibling pairs, how adult siblings experienced the death of their parent during childhood and their sibling relationship over time. Thirteen adult siblings from six families reflected upon their loss experiences and how these aff…
Ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research on end‐of‐life care
Ethnographic research on end‐of‐life care raises ethical dilemmas that merit explicit discussion. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Brazil, India and Indonesia as part of a comparative research project, this article examines a recurring ethical problem: the sensitivity of sharing or withholding diagnostic and prognostic knowledge when death is near. Such dilemmas overlap with those faced more broadly in medical anthropology, but the stakes are he…
Dying and an Afterlife
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Sociocultural Dimensions of Community‐Based Palliative Care in Brazil and Indonesia
Background Palliative care services are increasingly implemented in diverse sociocultural settings around the world. Aim Our ethnographic project aimed to explore the sociocultural and organizational dimensions of community‐based palliative care in Brazil and Indonesia. Methods We used ethnographic research methods to study local models of palliative care provision in Brazil and Indonesia. These countries were chosen because of similarities in st…
Silence
Silence is a common occurrence in everyday social interactions, yet anthropological research, like most research in the social sciences and humanities, has mostly focused on what people say and do. Over the last couple of decades, however, there has been an increased attention to how the unsaid, the unspeakable, and the invisible shape social, political, and subjective worlds. In particular, anthropologists have theorised silence as more than jus…
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery
In their efforts to digitize public service delivery, countries increasingly use algorithms based on mathematical models, data and/or a combination of different administrative datasets to issue decisions, but recent studies point towards challenges around citizens' understanding, accessing, and filing objections to such automated decisions. This paper focuses on the social infrastructure supporting citizens that struggle with accessing such servi…
Silence at the end of life
If God wants her to get better, she will get better," Nila said in a comforting way.1 We were in a major public hospital in the city of Banda Aceh, standing at the bedside of a young woman suffering from AIDS-related toxoplasmosis, and talking to the mother who nodded acquiescingly while gently rubbing her unconscious daughter's cold legs. Back in the hospital corridor, Nila whispered that it was extremely rare that anyone would recover from such…
Introduction
This collection of essays invites thinking about silences as forces of affective reverberation that resonate through, within, and across social, political, and intersubjective relations of turbulent pasts and uncertain futures, as well as forms of care and layers of structural oppression. It builds on scholarship from philosophy (Derrida, 1978; Foucault, 1978) and linguistic (Basso, 1970; Saville-Troike, 1982), psychological (Good, 2012; Throop, …
Tracing silences
Silence is crucial to our social world.Responding to the growing scholarly interest among anthropologists and historians in more in-depth engagements with social silence, in this special issue we argue for a theorization of silences that is at once more robust and open to the particular; a theorization, we suggest, that embraces multivocality, unintelligibility, and uncertainty of interpretation.We ask what it means to trace silences, and to incl…
Strategies of silence in an age of transparency
This article explores how strategies of silence intersect with politics and predicaments of visibility. Contributing to historical and anthropological scholarship that asks how histories of violence shape individuals' subjective navigation of silence, it suggests that the everyday work of silence needs to be understood within historical configurations of articulation in which (in)visibility takes an important place. Situating narratives of people…
Debate on Demanding images
For good measure’
Policy and data scientists have paid ample attention to the amount of data being collected and the challenge for policymakers to use and utilize it. However, far less attention has been paid towards the quality and coverage of this data specifically pertaining to minority groups. The paper makes the argument that while there is seemingly more data to draw on for policymakers, the quality of the data in combination with potential known or unknown …
After the Tsunami
Narrative Navigation
In this article, I elaborate the concept of narrative navigation to analyze the subjective and intersubjective ways in which people struggle through experiences of illness by constructing multiple, ambiguous and non-linear narratives that may continuously change, as they reposition themselves within changing circumstances. Drawing on ethnographic material on HIV care in Aceh, Indonesia, I show how subjunctivity and open-endedness are crucial narr…
This Path Is Full of Thorns
In this article, I focus on the active fostering of subjunctivity in processes of narrative worldmaking. Drawing extensively from the narrative of an HIV-positive woman in Indonesia, I show that by subjunctively leaving open multiple narrative trajectories and future possibilities, individuals may navigate the ethical complexities of their lives and maintain relationships with the world and others while staying true to the things that really matt…
Islam and the Limits of the State
Aceh has experienced dramatic social change over the past decade, with devastating natural disaster followed by unprecedentedly ambitious projects of reconstruction and development.1The shock of this unforeseen tragedy redefined priorities, transformed conversations about the future of Acehnese society, and accelerated ongoing negotiations to bring an end to armed conflict in the region.The peace agreement was formally concluded in July 2005 at H…
Seeing Aids in Aceh
Embodied narratives of disaster
The devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 caused massive destruction to coastal Aceh, Indonesia, and left countless numbers of people dead or wounded. This article focuses on the embodied narratives of three Acehnese women who survived the disaster and, like many others in Aceh, told their stories 'through' their bodies. A detailed ethnographic account of their narratives reveals how the body stretches temporally between the 'narra…
Narratives of Uncertainty
In this article, I focus on the effects and affects of the child-trafficking rumors that have circulated after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia. The perpetual uncertainty about the truth of the rumors has inserted alternative, uncertain futures into parents’ narratives of loss. I argue that to grasp such a condition of uncertainty ethnographically, we have to attend not only to what rumors reveal about a particular sociopolitical …
Aceh thanks the world’
While it has often been argued that post‐disaster aid is humiliating for its beneficiaries, based on my ethnographic research in post‐tsunami Aceh, Indonesia, I argue that such aid may also come to mean the opposite. Rather than feeling humiliated by foreign aid, people in Aceh actively glossed post‐tsunami foreign assistance as ‘gifts’ for which they often expressed their gratitude. Building on Marcel Mauss's classic argument, as well as on more…
Moving from Great Love
Residential relocation can have profound effects on people's mobilities. This article explores changes in the mobilities of people who were relocated to Great Love village, a newly built neighborhood in Aceh, Indonesia, after the devastating 2004 tsunami. The relative isolation of this neighborhood limits mobilities and work opportunities of the low-income population. However, women's mobilities became much more limited than men's. Building on th…
After the Tsunami
Imagistic Care
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Narratives of Uncertainty
In this article, I focus on the effects and affects of the child-trafficking rumors that have circulated after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia. The perpetual uncertainty about the truth of the rumors has inserted alternative, uncertain futures into parents’ narratives of loss. I argue that to grasp such a condition of uncertainty ethnographically, we have to attend not only to what rumors reveal about a particular sociopolitical …
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery
In their efforts to digitize public service delivery, countries increasingly use algorithms based on mathematical models, data and/or a combination of different administrative datasets to issue decisions, but recent studies point towards challenges around citizens' understanding, accessing, and filing objections to such automated decisions. This paper focuses on the social infrastructure supporting citizens that struggle with accessing such servi…
For good measure’
Policy and data scientists have paid ample attention to the amount of data being collected and the challenge for policymakers to use and utilize it. However, far less attention has been paid towards the quality and coverage of this data specifically pertaining to minority groups. The paper makes the argument that while there is seemingly more data to draw on for policymakers, the quality of the data in combination with potential known or unknown …
This Path Is Full of Thorns
In this article, I focus on the active fostering of subjunctivity in processes of narrative worldmaking. Drawing extensively from the narrative of an HIV-positive woman in Indonesia, I show that by subjunctively leaving open multiple narrative trajectories and future possibilities, individuals may navigate the ethical complexities of their lives and maintain relationships with the world and others while staying true to the things that really matt…
Silence at the end of life
If God wants her to get better, she will get better," Nila said in a comforting way.1 We were in a major public hospital in the city of Banda Aceh, standing at the bedside of a young woman suffering from AIDS-related toxoplasmosis, and talking to the mother who nodded acquiescingly while gently rubbing her unconscious daughter's cold legs. Back in the hospital corridor, Nila whispered that it was extremely rare that anyone would recover from such…
Introduction
This collection of essays invites thinking about silences as forces of affective reverberation that resonate through, within, and across social, political, and intersubjective relations of turbulent pasts and uncertain futures, as well as forms of care and layers of structural oppression. It builds on scholarship from philosophy (Derrida, 1978; Foucault, 1978) and linguistic (Basso, 1970; Saville-Troike, 1982), psychological (Good, 2012; Throop, …
After the Tsunami
Embodied narratives of disaster
The devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 caused massive destruction to coastal Aceh, Indonesia, and left countless numbers of people dead or wounded. This article focuses on the embodied narratives of three Acehnese women who survived the disaster and, like many others in Aceh, told their stories 'through' their bodies. A detailed ethnographic account of their narratives reveals how the body stretches temporally between the 'narra…
Moving from Great Love
Residential relocation can have profound effects on people's mobilities. This article explores changes in the mobilities of people who were relocated to Great Love village, a newly built neighborhood in Aceh, Indonesia, after the devastating 2004 tsunami. The relative isolation of this neighborhood limits mobilities and work opportunities of the low-income population. However, women's mobilities became much more limited than men's. Building on th…
Narrative Navigation
In this article, I elaborate the concept of narrative navigation to analyze the subjective and intersubjective ways in which people struggle through experiences of illness by constructing multiple, ambiguous and non-linear narratives that may continuously change, as they reposition themselves within changing circumstances. Drawing on ethnographic material on HIV care in Aceh, Indonesia, I show how subjunctivity and open-endedness are crucial narr…
Aceh thanks the world’
While it has often been argued that post‐disaster aid is humiliating for its beneficiaries, based on my ethnographic research in post‐tsunami Aceh, Indonesia, I argue that such aid may also come to mean the opposite. Rather than feeling humiliated by foreign aid, people in Aceh actively glossed post‐tsunami foreign assistance as ‘gifts’ for which they often expressed their gratitude. Building on Marcel Mauss's classic argument, as well as on more…
Seeing Aids in Aceh
Moving from Great Love
Residential relocation can have profound effects on people's mobilities. This article explores changes in the mobilities of people who were relocated to Great Love village, a newly built neighborhood in Aceh, Indonesia, after the devastating 2004 tsunami. The relative isolation of this neighborhood limits mobilities and work opportunities of the low-income population. However, women's mobilities became much more limited than men's. Building on th…
Aceh thanks the world’
While it has often been argued that post‐disaster aid is humiliating for its beneficiaries, based on my ethnographic research in post‐tsunami Aceh, Indonesia, I argue that such aid may also come to mean the opposite. Rather than feeling humiliated by foreign aid, people in Aceh actively glossed post‐tsunami foreign assistance as ‘gifts’ for which they often expressed their gratitude. Building on Marcel Mauss's classic argument, as well as on more…
Narratives of Uncertainty
In this article, I focus on the effects and affects of the child-trafficking rumors that have circulated after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia. The perpetual uncertainty about the truth of the rumors has inserted alternative, uncertain futures into parents’ narratives of loss. I argue that to grasp such a condition of uncertainty ethnographically, we have to attend not only to what rumors reveal about a particular sociopolitical …
Islam and the Limits of the State
Aceh has experienced dramatic social change over the past decade, with devastating natural disaster followed by unprecedentedly ambitious projects of reconstruction and development.1The shock of this unforeseen tragedy redefined priorities, transformed conversations about the future of Acehnese society, and accelerated ongoing negotiations to bring an end to armed conflict in the region.The peace agreement was formally concluded in July 2005 at H…
Seeing Aids in Aceh
Embodied narratives of disaster
The devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 caused massive destruction to coastal Aceh, Indonesia, and left countless numbers of people dead or wounded. This article focuses on the embodied narratives of three Acehnese women who survived the disaster and, like many others in Aceh, told their stories 'through' their bodies. A detailed ethnographic account of their narratives reveals how the body stretches temporally between the 'narra…
Narrative Navigation
In this article, I elaborate the concept of narrative navigation to analyze the subjective and intersubjective ways in which people struggle through experiences of illness by constructing multiple, ambiguous and non-linear narratives that may continuously change, as they reposition themselves within changing circumstances. Drawing on ethnographic material on HIV care in Aceh, Indonesia, I show how subjunctivity and open-endedness are crucial narr…
This Path Is Full of Thorns
In this article, I focus on the active fostering of subjunctivity in processes of narrative worldmaking. Drawing extensively from the narrative of an HIV-positive woman in Indonesia, I show that by subjunctively leaving open multiple narrative trajectories and future possibilities, individuals may navigate the ethical complexities of their lives and maintain relationships with the world and others while staying true to the things that really matt…
For good measure’
Policy and data scientists have paid ample attention to the amount of data being collected and the challenge for policymakers to use and utilize it. However, far less attention has been paid towards the quality and coverage of this data specifically pertaining to minority groups. The paper makes the argument that while there is seemingly more data to draw on for policymakers, the quality of the data in combination with potential known or unknown …
After the Tsunami
Tracing silences
Silence is crucial to our social world.Responding to the growing scholarly interest among anthropologists and historians in more in-depth engagements with social silence, in this special issue we argue for a theorization of silences that is at once more robust and open to the particular; a theorization, we suggest, that embraces multivocality, unintelligibility, and uncertainty of interpretation.We ask what it means to trace silences, and to incl…
Strategies of silence in an age of transparency
This article explores how strategies of silence intersect with politics and predicaments of visibility. Contributing to historical and anthropological scholarship that asks how histories of violence shape individuals' subjective navigation of silence, it suggests that the everyday work of silence needs to be understood within historical configurations of articulation in which (in)visibility takes an important place. Situating narratives of people…
Debate on Demanding images
Silence
Silence is a common occurrence in everyday social interactions, yet anthropological research, like most research in the social sciences and humanities, has mostly focused on what people say and do. Over the last couple of decades, however, there has been an increased attention to how the unsaid, the unspeakable, and the invisible shape social, political, and subjective worlds. In particular, anthropologists have theorised silence as more than jus…
Administrative burden in digital public service delivery
In their efforts to digitize public service delivery, countries increasingly use algorithms based on mathematical models, data and/or a combination of different administrative datasets to issue decisions, but recent studies point towards challenges around citizens' understanding, accessing, and filing objections to such automated decisions. This paper focuses on the social infrastructure supporting citizens that struggle with accessing such servi…
Silence at the end of life
If God wants her to get better, she will get better," Nila said in a comforting way.1 We were in a major public hospital in the city of Banda Aceh, standing at the bedside of a young woman suffering from AIDS-related toxoplasmosis, and talking to the mother who nodded acquiescingly while gently rubbing her unconscious daughter's cold legs. Back in the hospital corridor, Nila whispered that it was extremely rare that anyone would recover from such…
Introduction
This collection of essays invites thinking about silences as forces of affective reverberation that resonate through, within, and across social, political, and intersubjective relations of turbulent pasts and uncertain futures, as well as forms of care and layers of structural oppression. It builds on scholarship from philosophy (Derrida, 1978; Foucault, 1978) and linguistic (Basso, 1970; Saville-Troike, 1982), psychological (Good, 2012; Throop, …
After the Tsunami
Imagistic Care
Dying and an Afterlife
The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology
Bringing together contributions from a global team of renowned scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the dynamic field of psychological anthropology. It is divided into five parts and includes a critical updating of the theoretical foundations for psychological anthropology, covering cognitive, psychodynamic, linguistic, and phenomenological views. It provides the first-ever lifespan perspective on human development in culture…
Sociocultural Dimensions of Community‐Based Palliative Care in Brazil and Indonesia
Background Palliative care services are increasingly implemented in diverse sociocultural settings around the world. Aim Our ethnographic project aimed to explore the sociocultural and organizational dimensions of community‐based palliative care in Brazil and Indonesia. Methods We used ethnographic research methods to study local models of palliative care provision in Brazil and Indonesia. These countries were chosen because of similarities in st…
Sibling Relationships After the Death of a Parent During Childhood
After the death of a parent, children have to adjust to changes in family roles and dynamics as a result of the loss, including the sibling relationship. The current qualitative study explored, using joint interviews with sibling pairs, how adult siblings experienced the death of their parent during childhood and their sibling relationship over time. Thirteen adult siblings from six families reflected upon their loss experiences and how these aff…
Ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research on end‐of‐life care
Ethnographic research on end‐of‐life care raises ethical dilemmas that merit explicit discussion. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Brazil, India and Indonesia as part of a comparative research project, this article examines a recurring ethical problem: the sensitivity of sharing or withholding diagnostic and prognostic knowledge when death is near. Such dilemmas overlap with those faced more broadly in medical anthropology, but the stakes are he…
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