T M Gammeltoft
Biographic Data
| ID | 32841 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T M Gammeltoft |
| GIVEN NAMES | T M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gammeltoft |
| SIGNATURE | GAMMELTOFT T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6723-2370 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 361 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Prevalence and risk factors of gestational diabetes mellitus among pregnant women in northern Vietnam: A cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) increases adverse neonatal and maternal outcomes. Understanding the prevalence and risk factors of GDM is necessary to plan health care interventions and policy. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and risk factors of GDM in Thai Binh, Vietnam. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in two health facilities in Thai Binh, Vietnam, with the participation of 1,106 pregnant women. Women were …
Silence, Awkwardness and Discomfort: Understanding How Health Interventions Fail-An Ethnographic Study of a Peer Support Intervention for People With Type 2 Diabetes in Denmark
Unsuccessful peer support interventions rarely receive detailed ethnographic attention. The article examines a peer support intervention part of a randomised controlled trial designed to provide people with type 2 diabetes socio-emotional support while adopting self-care technology. The trial concluded that the intervention yielded no benefits. This article insists on 'failure' as an analytical opening with potential for intervention research. Et…
The pioneers of Vietnam’s epidemiological transition: An ethnographic study of pregnant women’s experiences of gestational diabetes
Background Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is an abnormal glucose metabolism diagnosed during pregnancy that can have serious adverse consequences for mother and child. GDM is an exceptional health condition, as its management serves not only as treatment but also as prevention, reducing the risk of future diabetes in mother and child.Objectives This qualitative study aimed to explore how pregnant women experience and respond to GDM, focusing…
Mindeord: Oscar Salemink
Mindeord: Oscar Salemink
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam
This article explores family caregiving in Vietnamese households affected by type 2 diabetes. Drawing on existential phenomenology and on fieldwork conducted in northern Vietnam, I develop the concept of care calibrations as a tool to understand how family members respond socially and morally to the needs for care that diabetes confronts them with. The concept of care calibrations highlights how chronic care is undertaken as an ethical endeavor w…
Breastfeeding and infant care as ‘sexed’ care work: Reconsideration of the three Rs to enable women’s rights, economic empowerment, nutrition and health
Women’s 1 lifelong health and nutrition status is intricately related to their reproductive history, including the number and spacing of their pregnancies and births, and for how long and how intensively they breastfeed their children. In turn, women’s reproductive biology is closely linked to their social roles and situation, including regarding economic disadvantage and disproportionate unpaid work. Recognizing , as well as reducing and redistr…
Mobilizing morality: How caregivers in Vietnam handle the challenges of daily diabetes care
While family members expressed motivation to take care of the patient because of moral obligations, some caregivers, specifically primary caregivers, did not want to burden other family members with care tasks and were reluctant to ask for assistance. For families who did share the caregiving tasks among several family members, some of the negative sentiments associated with caregiving were diminished. Having multiple members of a family forming …
Existential vulnerability: An ethnographic study of everyday lives with diabetes in Vietnam
This article asks: how can the concept of existential vulnerability help us to comprehend the human impact of chronic disease? Across the globe, the prevalence of chronic health conditions is rising dramatically, with wide-ranging consequences for human lives. Taking type II diabetes in northern Vietnam as its ethnographic case, this study explores how chronic health conditions are woven into everyday lives, altering subjectivities and social rel…
Everyday disease diplomacy: An ethnographic study of diabetes self-care in Vietnam
In northern Vietnam, type 2 diabetes demands daily labour, as people strive to enact appropriate self-care while also seeking to maintain stable social connections to family and community. Health care interventions aiming to enhance diabetes care should therefore combine efforts to improve people's technical diabetes self-care skills with attention to the lived significance of stable family and community belonging
Everyday attentiveness: Understanding diabetes in Vietnam through literary displacement
World-wide, diabetes is taking on epidemic proportions. This is a debilitating disease that damages and destroys bodily systems unless blood sugar levels are kept close to normal, and patients are therefore urged to practise attentive self-management. Among people with type II diabetes in Vietnam, such everyday attentiveness seems to far exceed clinical recommendations, suffusing daily lives in pervasive and yet elusive ways. Drawing on ethnograp…
Unmet needs for social support and diabetes-related distress among people living with type 2 diabetes in Thai Binh, Vietnam: A cross-sectional study
Half of the people with T2D experienced DRD. The results suggest that having enough finances may decrease most needs for social support with the exception of emotional support. Thus, social support to financial and emotional of diabetes aspects may contribute to prevent or reverse DRD
The Varieties of Transformative Experience: Ethnographic Explorations
The Force of Love: Type II Diabetes in Vietnam as Tentatively Transformative Experience
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, insisti…
Spectral kinship: Understanding how Vietnamese women endure domestic distress
Endurance is a key term used by women in contemporary Vietnam to characterize the moral persistence that their marital lives demand. Accounting for women's endurance requires, as fieldwork in Hanoi indicates, ethnographic attention to how kinship can be temporally and spatially capricious, exceeding the immediately manifest. The concept of spectral kinship aims to capture these latent aspects of kinship and their groundings in people's imaginativ…
Abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy and may be either spontaneous or induced. Throughout human history, induced abortion has been shrouded in controversy. The ethnographic record shows that, across societies, abortion has involved intense contestations over morally fraught issues such as the organization of human sexuality, the limits to human life, and women's rights to bodily self‐determination. Despite the pervasiveness of this procedur…
Intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Vietnam: Prevalence, risk factors and the role of social support
Background: Violence against women is a global public health problem. A better understanding of risk factors for intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure during pregnancy is important to develop interventions for supporting women being exposed to IPV.Objective: The purpose of this study was to measure the prevalence of IPV during pregnancy and analyse how social support and various risk factors are associated with IPV.Methods: A cross-sectional s…
Belonging
In this article I explore how a ‘belonging’ perspective can contribute to anthropological reflections on subjectivity and agency. On the basis of two ethnographic cases from Vietnam, I show how people tend to find their bearings in existentially difficult situations by placing themselves within concrete communities of others. Distinguishing between intersubjective, territorial, and political forms of belonging, I discuss anthropological approache…
The Attachment Imperative: Parental Experiences of Relation-making in a Danish Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
In this article, we explore how parents establish relations with extremely premature infants whose lives and futures are uncertain. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), we engage recent discussions of the limits of conventional anthropological thinking on social relations and point to the productive aspects of practices of distance and detachment. We show that while the NICU upholds an imperative of a…
"A Combination of Imagination and Observation": Medical Anthropology in Vietnam since the 1990s
Mental Health in Domestic Worlds
More than a decade ago, the case of a young woman named Catarina entered the annals of anthropology. Believed to be suffering from a psychosis, Catarina lived in an asylum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Domestic Moods: Maternal Mental Health in Northern Vietnam
In this article I propose the notion of domestic mood as an important concept for mental health research. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among women living in Hanoi, Vietnam, I explore the maternal mental health problems that the women reported, focusing particularly on the household tensions and conflicts that made the entry into motherhood a distressful experience. To develop the concept of domestic mood, I draw on Martin Heidegger…
Social support and intimate partner violence during pregnancy among women attending antenatal care in Moshi Municipality, Northern Tanzania
Nearly one third of women experienced IPV during pregnancy. Social support to women is associated with decreased odds of experiencing IPV during pregnancy. The family of origin plays an important role in providing social support to women who experience abuse during pregnancy; however, their true involvement in mitigating the impact of violence in the African setting needs further research
Silence as a Response to Everyday Violence: Understanding Domination and Distress Through the Lens of Fantasy
Across the world, existing research indicates that many women respond with silence to marital abuse. This article offers an ethnographic investigation of the social and psychic forces behind Vietnamese women's silencing of violence and a theoretical exploration of how the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy—understood as unconscious or subconscious mental processes—may contribute to the analysis of everyday violence and psychic distress. Distinguis…
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Explorations at the Edges of Culture and Consciousness
Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam
Selective Reproductive Technologies
From a historical perspective, selective reproduction is nothing new. Infanticide, abandonment, and selective neglect of children have a long history, and the widespread deployment of sterilization and forced abortion in the twentieth century has been well documented. Yet in recent decades selective reproduction has been placed under the aegis of science and expertise in novel ways. New laboratory and clinical techniques allow for the selective f…
Potentiality and Human Temporality: Haunting Futures in Vietnamese Pregnancy Care
In this article I discuss how anthropological investigations of potentiality can be enriched through a focus on time. The ethnographic basis of my inquiry is research conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam, on the use of sonographic imaging. Drawing on this fieldwork, I pursue two main agendas. The first is ethnographic: I explore how the potentiality of children-to-be was represented by people in Hanoi-by pregnant women, by health-care providers, and by po…
Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia. Youth, courtship and sexuality
Sonography and Sociality: Obstetrical Ultrasound Imaging in Urban Vietnam
This article is about new reproductive technologies, maternal anxieties, and existential uncertainties. It explores the question of why pregnant women in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, have become avid consumers of obstetrical ultrasound scanning even while expressing profound doubts regarding the reliability and safety of this new technology of pregnancy. Through a phenomenological analysis of the social production of women's sense of reproductive ri…
Figures of transversality: State power and prenatal screening in contemporary Vietnam
In this article, I explore how prenatal screening is imbricated within state agendas, aspirations, and imaginings in contemporary Vietnam. In an effort to develop new ethnographic tropes for understanding the formation called "the state," I argue for a phenomenological take that emphasizes its affective and embodied aspects. Seeing the anomalous fetus as a "figure of transversality," as a critical focus for powerful imaginings and desires, I show…
The Commodification of Obstetric Ultrasound Scanning in Hanoi, Viet Nam
Growing numbers of pregnant women across the world now routinely have ultrasound scans as part of antenatal care, including in low-income countries. This article presents the findings of anthropological research on the use of obstetric ultrasonography in routine antenatal care in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The findings come from observation, a survey and interviews with women seeking ultrasound scans at a main maternity hospital and interviews with doctors…
Seeking trust and transcendence: Sexual risk-taking among Vietnamese youth
Toward an Anthropology of the Imaginary: Specters of Disability in Vietnam
In this article, I discuss the analytical potential that the notion of the imaginary holds for anthropology as a concept that may capture some of the more subdued, yet socially vigorous, moods and sensations that hover where personal experience and socially salient forms of power merge. The ethnographic occasion for my inquiry is the eager uptake of new technologies for selective reproduction in Vietnam; technologies that are actively promoted by…
Prenatal Diagnosis in Postwar Vietnam: Power, Subjectivity, and Citizenship
Across the world, routine pregnancy care is expanding to include ultrasound imaging and other prenatal diagnostic technologies. Yet, despite their global proliferation, hardly any anthropological research has examined how such technologies are employed outside Euro-America. In this article, I investigate how pregnant women in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, handle the hard choices that ultrasonographies confront them with when a fetal anomaly is detect…
Childhood disability and parental moral responsibility in northern Vietnam: Towards Ethnographies of Intercorporeality
This article explores the roles played by parents living in Hanoi, Vietnam, in shaping the subjectivities of children who are categorized as physically or intellectually impaired. In an effort to comprehend disability in terms of an active and embodied engagement with the world, I employ a phenomenologically inspired 'intercorporeal' perspective as a conceptual alternative to 'medical' and 'social' models of disability. Through this approach I sh…
Beyond being: Emergent narratives of suffering in Vietnam
Intertwining ethnographic and literary accounts, this article explores the mutual relationship between suffering and agency. The article describes how young Vietnamese women use narrative to find meaning in the suffering that a late-term abortion causes. Seeking to further develop anthropological use of the concept of social suffering, the article argues that existing scholarship has tended to neglect the importance of human agency and imaginatio…
Silence as a Response to Everyday Violence: Understanding Domination and Distress Through the Lens of Fantasy
Across the world, existing research indicates that many women respond with silence to marital abuse. This article offers an ethnographic investigation of the social and psychic forces behind Vietnamese women's silencing of violence and a theoretical exploration of how the psychoanalytic concept of fantasy—understood as unconscious or subconscious mental processes—may contribute to the analysis of everyday violence and psychic distress. Distinguis…
Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: Explorations at the Edges of Culture and Consciousness
Spectral kinship: Understanding how Vietnamese women endure domestic distress
Endurance is a key term used by women in contemporary Vietnam to characterize the moral persistence that their marital lives demand. Accounting for women's endurance requires, as fieldwork in Hanoi indicates, ethnographic attention to how kinship can be temporally and spatially capricious, exceeding the immediately manifest. The concept of spectral kinship aims to capture these latent aspects of kinship and their groundings in people's imaginativ…
Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam
Domestic Moods: Maternal Mental Health in Northern Vietnam
In this article I propose the notion of domestic mood as an important concept for mental health research. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among women living in Hanoi, Vietnam, I explore the maternal mental health problems that the women reported, focusing particularly on the household tensions and conflicts that made the entry into motherhood a distressful experience. To develop the concept of domestic mood, I draw on Martin Heidegger…
The Varieties of Transformative Experience: Ethnographic Explorations
Fetal conditions and fatal decisions: Ethical dilemmas in ultrasound screening in Vietnam
The Attachment Imperative: Parental Experiences of Relation-making in a Danish Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
In this article, we explore how parents establish relations with extremely premature infants whose lives and futures are uncertain. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), we engage recent discussions of the limits of conventional anthropological thinking on social relations and point to the productive aspects of practices of distance and detachment. We show that while the NICU upholds an imperative of a…
Mental Health in Domestic Worlds
More than a decade ago, the case of a young woman named Catarina entered the annals of anthropology. Believed to be suffering from a psychosis, Catarina lived in an asylum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Late-Term Abortion for Fetal Anomaly: Vietnamese Women's Experiences
Screening for fetal anomalies in the second trimester of pregnancy is increasingly becoming a part of antenatal care. As a consequence, more pregnant women are learning that the child they are expecting has an anomaly. This article derives from anthropological research in a hospital in Hanoi, Viet Nam, from 2003–2006 that investigated 30 women's experiences after a fetal anomaly was detected. We followed the women from the ultrasound scan through…
Situation Analysis of Quality of Abortion Care in the Main Maternity Hospital in Ha ̨i Phòng, Viet Nam
Six months after a Comprehensive Abortion Care project was implemented in Phu-San Hospital, the main maternity hospital in Hai Phòng, northern Viet Nam, a study of quality of abortion services was carried out. The study explored the interaction between providers and women seeking abortion and how cultural values influenced quality of care. A quantitative and qualitative approach was employed: a three-part structured survey with 748 women before a…
Being Special for Somebody: Urban Sexualities in Contemporary Vietnam
Calibrating care: Family caregiving and the social weight of sympathy (tình cảm) in Vietnam
This article explores family caregiving in Vietnamese households affected by type 2 diabetes. Drawing on existential phenomenology and on fieldwork conducted in northern Vietnam, I develop the concept of care calibrations as a tool to understand how family members respond socially and morally to the needs for care that diabetes confronts them with. The concept of care calibrations highlights how chronic care is undertaken as an ethical endeavor w…
The Force of Love: Type II Diabetes in Vietnam as Tentatively Transformative Experience
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, insisti…
Between “Science” and “Superstition”: Moral Perceptions of Induced Abortion Among Young Adults in Vietnam
Being Special for Somebody: Urban Sexualities in Contemporary Vietnam
Seeking trust and transcendence: Sexual risk-taking among Vietnamese youth
The Ritualisation of Abortion in Contemporary Vietnam
Induced abortion was introduced in Northern Vietnam in the 1960s as part of socialist efforts to develop and modernise Vietnamese society. With approximately two million pregnancy terminations per year, Vietnam now has the highest abortion rate in the world. This article explores how unmarried urban youths seek to cope with the experience of abortion and the suffering it entails. It is argued that while some forms of suffering are officially reco…
Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia. Youth, courtship and sexuality
Beyond being: Emergent narratives of suffering in Vietnam
Intertwining ethnographic and literary accounts, this article explores the mutual relationship between suffering and agency. The article describes how young Vietnamese women use narrative to find meaning in the suffering that a late-term abortion causes. Seeking to further develop anthropological use of the concept of social suffering, the article argues that existing scholarship has tended to neglect the importance of human agency and imaginatio…
Situation Analysis of Quality of Abortion Care in the Main Maternity Hospital in Ha ̨i Phòng, Viet Nam
Six months after a Comprehensive Abortion Care project was implemented in Phu-San Hospital, the main maternity hospital in Hai Phòng, northern Viet Nam, a study of quality of abortion services was carried out. The study explored the interaction between providers and women seeking abortion and how cultural values influenced quality of care. A quantitative and qualitative approach was employed: a three-part structured survey with 748 women before a…
Fetal conditions and fatal decisions: Ethical dilemmas in ultrasound screening in Vietnam
The Commodification of Obstetric Ultrasound Scanning in Hanoi, Viet Nam
Growing numbers of pregnant women across the world now routinely have ultrasound scans as part of antenatal care, including in low-income countries. This article presents the findings of anthropological research on the use of obstetric ultrasonography in routine antenatal care in Hanoi, Viet Nam. The findings come from observation, a survey and interviews with women seeking ultrasound scans at a main maternity hospital and interviews with doctors…
Sonography and Sociality: Obstetrical Ultrasound Imaging in Urban Vietnam
This article is about new reproductive technologies, maternal anxieties, and existential uncertainties. It explores the question of why pregnant women in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, have become avid consumers of obstetrical ultrasound scanning even while expressing profound doubts regarding the reliability and safety of this new technology of pregnancy. Through a phenomenological analysis of the social production of women's sense of reproductive ri…
Prenatal Diagnosis in Postwar Vietnam: Power, Subjectivity, and Citizenship
Across the world, routine pregnancy care is expanding to include ultrasound imaging and other prenatal diagnostic technologies. Yet, despite their global proliferation, hardly any anthropological research has examined how such technologies are employed outside Euro-America. In this article, I investigate how pregnant women in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, handle the hard choices that ultrasonographies confront them with when a fetal anomaly is detect…
Strategies for the prevention and treatment of reproductive tract infections among women in Vietnam
This paper presents selected findings from a larger study on reproductive tract infections (RTIs) among women seeking abortion in Northern Vietnam. In particular it focuses on women's experience of RTIs within the context of their perceptions of female physiology and what women do to prevent and treat RTIs. The approach used was a combination of the quantitative and the qualitative: 748 structured interviews were undertaken before, and 701 after,…
Late-Term Abortion for Fetal Anomaly: Vietnamese Women's Experiences
Screening for fetal anomalies in the second trimester of pregnancy is increasingly becoming a part of antenatal care. As a consequence, more pregnant women are learning that the child they are expecting has an anomaly. This article derives from anthropological research in a hospital in Hanoi, Viet Nam, from 2003–2006 that investigated 30 women's experiences after a fetal anomaly was detected. We followed the women from the ultrasound scan through…
Figures of transversality: State power and prenatal screening in contemporary Vietnam
In this article, I explore how prenatal screening is imbricated within state agendas, aspirations, and imaginings in contemporary Vietnam. In an effort to develop new ethnographic tropes for understanding the formation called "the state," I argue for a phenomenological take that emphasizes its affective and embodied aspects. Seeing the anomalous fetus as a "figure of transversality," as a critical focus for powerful imaginings and desires, I show…
Childhood disability and parental moral responsibility in northern Vietnam: Towards Ethnographies of Intercorporeality
This article explores the roles played by parents living in Hanoi, Vietnam, in shaping the subjectivities of children who are categorized as physically or intellectually impaired. In an effort to comprehend disability in terms of an active and embodied engagement with the world, I employ a phenomenologically inspired 'intercorporeal' perspective as a conceptual alternative to 'medical' and 'social' models of disability. Through this approach I sh…
Induced abortion among HIV-positive women in Northern Vietnam: Exploring reproductive dilemmas
Across the world, childbearing among HIV-positive women is a socially controversial issue. This paper derives from a larger research project that investigated reproductive decisions among HIV-positive women in Quang Ninh, a northern province of Vietnam. The paper focuses on 13 women who had an abortion after being diagnosed as HIV-positive, exploring their reflections, concerns and dilemmas. The results show that the HIV-positive pregnant women s…
Number and timing of antenatal HIV testing: Evidence from a community-based study in Northern Vietnam
Not having an HIV test during pregnancy was associated with poor socio-economic characteristics among the women and with not receiving information about PMTCT at the first ANC visit. Multiple testing during pregnancy prevailed; the second tests were often provided at a late stage of gestation
Pregnancy decision-making among HIV positive women in Northern Vietnam: Reconsidering Reproductive Choice
The global HIV epidemic confronts pregnant women with hard reproductive choices. This paper offers a theoretically innovative and ethnographically sensitive exploration of the social processes through which 20 HIV positive women living in Northern Vietnam decide whether to continue or terminate their pregnancies. Arguing that human agency must be seen as an outcome of intersubjective engagements in shared social worlds, this paper explores how th…
Women's Bodies, Women's Worries: Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune
The first fully-fledged ethnography on health-related issues to come out of contemporary Vietnam, Women's Bodies, Women's Worries is a study of women's lives in a rural commune in Vietnam's Red River delta. Starting as an examination of the impact of Vietnam's ambitious family planning policy on the health and lives of rural women, the study explores historical and contemporary socio-cultural forces which influence the lives of Vietnamese women. …
Potentiality and Human Temporality: Haunting Futures in Vietnamese Pregnancy Care
In this article I discuss how anthropological investigations of potentiality can be enriched through a focus on time. The ethnographic basis of my inquiry is research conducted in Hanoi, Vietnam, on the use of sonographic imaging. Drawing on this fieldwork, I pursue two main agendas. The first is ethnographic: I explore how the potentiality of children-to-be was represented by people in Hanoi-by pregnant women, by health-care providers, and by po…
The politics of sexual health in Vietnam
Over recent decades, the importance of sexual health for global public health has achieved increasing recognition internationally. This chapter focuses on sexual health in Vietnam. The social and economic conditions offered by the new market economy were seen as conducive to sexual escapades as increasing mobility, expanding leisure opportunities, new means of communication, and rising incomes enhanced the opportunities for erotic liaisons. It st…
Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam
"Haunting Images" published on by University of California Press
Selective Reproductive Technologies
From a historical perspective, selective reproduction is nothing new. Infanticide, abandonment, and selective neglect of children have a long history, and the widespread deployment of sterilization and forced abortion in the twentieth century has been well documented. Yet in recent decades selective reproduction has been placed under the aegis of science and expertise in novel ways. New laboratory and clinical techniques allow for the selective f…
Toward an Anthropology of the Imaginary: Specters of Disability in Vietnam
In this article, I discuss the analytical potential that the notion of the imaginary holds for anthropology as a concept that may capture some of the more subdued, yet socially vigorous, moods and sensations that hover where personal experience and socially salient forms of power merge. The ethnographic occasion for my inquiry is the eager uptake of new technologies for selective reproduction in Vietnam; technologies that are actively promoted by…
Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam
Sociology (35 works) · Gender Studies (21 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (21 works) · Anthropology (17 works) · Pregnancy (17 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works)