Merav Shohet
Biographic Data
| ID | 80787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merav Shohet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merav |
| FAMILY NAME | Shohet |
| SIGNATURE | SHOHET M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0497-8818 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Language of Silence
Silence is polysemous, spanning affective, moral, political, and temporal dimensions. Typically defined as an absence (of sound, speech, or language), silence is also a presence and a material sign. This selective review of anthropological scholarship engaged with silence argues that, as an inherently contextual and cultural semiotic form, silence bears the signature features of any speech or listening act: It evokes a multiplicity of effects not…
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz
Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam
Beyond the clinic? Eluding a medical diagnosis of anorexia through narrative
The persistence and recurrence of anorexia nervosa poses a clinical challenge, and provides support for critiques of oppressive and injurious facets of society inscribed on women's bodies. This essay illustrates how a phenomenological, linguistic anthropological approach fruitfully traverses clinical and cultural perspectives by directing attention beyond the embodied experience of patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa to those who are not cli…
Two deaths and a funeral: Ritual inscriptions' affordances for mourning and moral personhood in Vietnam
Mortuary rituals constitute the social nature of death and mourning, often working to ease painful transitions for the deceased and bereaved. In Vietnam, such rituals involve objects, including commodified yet personalized text-artifacts like banners and placards bearing inscriptions in various scripts that are associated with various affects and different political-economic regimes. The material, orthographic, semantic, spatial, and temporal org…
Troubling Love: Gender, Class, and Sideshadowing the "Happy Family" in Vietnam
Though socially and politically different, Vietnam's Confucian, colonial, socialist, and marketizing regimes share a common master narrative of ideal women as the moral bedrock of their nation: virtuous, self-sacrificing mothers. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in Đà Nẵng, this essay examines how women deploy discourses about ethical sentiments and national development to make sense of their experiences of love. I focus on women's mora…
Everyday Sacrifice and Language Socialization in Vietnam: The Power of a Respect Particle
The Vietnamese ethic ofhy sinh, typically translated as "sacrifice," involves moral conduct and dispositions that emphasize showing respect to sociocultural "superiors" and yielding to sociocultural "inferiors." Like "filial piety," which has been shown to permeate many aspects of life in contemporary Asia, hy sinh is a cultural virtue learned first in families' daily lives. In this article, I examine how participants' linguistic and corporeal pr…
The problem of peers in Vietnamese interaction
InVietnamese, address (second-person reference) is typically accomplished by the use of a kin term regardless of whether the talk's recipient is a genealogical relative or not. All Vietnamese kin terms encode a specification of either relative age or relative generation of participants, and there are no reciprocal terms akin toEnglish 'brother' or 'sister'; rather, a speaker must select between terms such as 'older brother' (anh) or 'younger sibl…
Narrating Anorexia: Full" and "Struggling" Genres of Recovery
Exploring narrative processes through which women treated for anorexia reframe their illness and recovery experiences, I identify features of two distinct genres, "full recovery" (FR) and "struggling to recover" (SR) that differently shape, while also being shaped by, women's lived senses of self. Analysis suggests that full recovery may entail a temporal disjuncture between past and present selves, and the construction of a coherent empowerment …
The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization
Two anthropologists treat mealtimes as cultural sites for socializing children into commensality, communicative expectations, and the symbolic, moral, and sentimental meanings of food and eating. Using ethnographic evidence, they indicate how mealtime comportment is embedded in practices and ideologies relevant to children's competent membership in their families and communities
The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization
Two anthropologists treat mealtimes as cultural sites for socializing children into commensality, communicative expectations, and the symbolic, moral, and sentimental meanings of food and eating. Using ethnographic evidence, they indicate how mealtime comportment is embedded in practices and ideologies relevant to children's competent membership in their families and communities
Everyday Sacrifice and Language Socialization in Vietnam: The Power of a Respect Particle
The Vietnamese ethic ofhy sinh, typically translated as "sacrifice," involves moral conduct and dispositions that emphasize showing respect to sociocultural "superiors" and yielding to sociocultural "inferiors." Like "filial piety," which has been shown to permeate many aspects of life in contemporary Asia, hy sinh is a cultural virtue learned first in families' daily lives. In this article, I examine how participants' linguistic and corporeal pr…
Narrating Anorexia: Full" and "Struggling" Genres of Recovery
Exploring narrative processes through which women treated for anorexia reframe their illness and recovery experiences, I identify features of two distinct genres, "full recovery" (FR) and "struggling to recover" (SR) that differently shape, while also being shaped by, women's lived senses of self. Analysis suggests that full recovery may entail a temporal disjuncture between past and present selves, and the construction of a coherent empowerment …
The problem of peers in Vietnamese interaction
InVietnamese, address (second-person reference) is typically accomplished by the use of a kin term regardless of whether the talk's recipient is a genealogical relative or not. All Vietnamese kin terms encode a specification of either relative age or relative generation of participants, and there are no reciprocal terms akin toEnglish 'brother' or 'sister'; rather, a speaker must select between terms such as 'older brother' (anh) or 'younger sibl…
Troubling Love: Gender, Class, and Sideshadowing the "Happy Family" in Vietnam
Though socially and politically different, Vietnam's Confucian, colonial, socialist, and marketizing regimes share a common master narrative of ideal women as the moral bedrock of their nation: virtuous, self-sacrificing mothers. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in Đà Nẵng, this essay examines how women deploy discourses about ethical sentiments and national development to make sense of their experiences of love. I focus on women's mora…
Two deaths and a funeral: Ritual inscriptions' affordances for mourning and moral personhood in Vietnam
Mortuary rituals constitute the social nature of death and mourning, often working to ease painful transitions for the deceased and bereaved. In Vietnam, such rituals involve objects, including commodified yet personalized text-artifacts like banners and placards bearing inscriptions in various scripts that are associated with various affects and different political-economic regimes. The material, orthographic, semantic, spatial, and temporal org…
Beyond the clinic? Eluding a medical diagnosis of anorexia through narrative
The persistence and recurrence of anorexia nervosa poses a clinical challenge, and provides support for critiques of oppressive and injurious facets of society inscribed on women's bodies. This essay illustrates how a phenomenological, linguistic anthropological approach fruitfully traverses clinical and cultural perspectives by directing attention beyond the embodied experience of patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa to those who are not cli…
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz
The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization
Two anthropologists treat mealtimes as cultural sites for socializing children into commensality, communicative expectations, and the symbolic, moral, and sentimental meanings of food and eating. Using ethnographic evidence, they indicate how mealtime comportment is embedded in practices and ideologies relevant to children's competent membership in their families and communities
Narrating Anorexia: Full" and "Struggling" Genres of Recovery
Exploring narrative processes through which women treated for anorexia reframe their illness and recovery experiences, I identify features of two distinct genres, "full recovery" (FR) and "struggling to recover" (SR) that differently shape, while also being shaped by, women's lived senses of self. Analysis suggests that full recovery may entail a temporal disjuncture between past and present selves, and the construction of a coherent empowerment …
Everyday Sacrifice and Language Socialization in Vietnam: The Power of a Respect Particle
The Vietnamese ethic ofhy sinh, typically translated as "sacrifice," involves moral conduct and dispositions that emphasize showing respect to sociocultural "superiors" and yielding to sociocultural "inferiors." Like "filial piety," which has been shown to permeate many aspects of life in contemporary Asia, hy sinh is a cultural virtue learned first in families' daily lives. In this article, I examine how participants' linguistic and corporeal pr…
The problem of peers in Vietnamese interaction
InVietnamese, address (second-person reference) is typically accomplished by the use of a kin term regardless of whether the talk's recipient is a genealogical relative or not. All Vietnamese kin terms encode a specification of either relative age or relative generation of participants, and there are no reciprocal terms akin toEnglish 'brother' or 'sister'; rather, a speaker must select between terms such as 'older brother' (anh) or 'younger sibl…
Troubling Love: Gender, Class, and Sideshadowing the "Happy Family" in Vietnam
Though socially and politically different, Vietnam's Confucian, colonial, socialist, and marketizing regimes share a common master narrative of ideal women as the moral bedrock of their nation: virtuous, self-sacrificing mothers. Drawing on ethnographic material collected in Đà Nẵng, this essay examines how women deploy discourses about ethical sentiments and national development to make sense of their experiences of love. I focus on women's mora…
Beyond the clinic? Eluding a medical diagnosis of anorexia through narrative
The persistence and recurrence of anorexia nervosa poses a clinical challenge, and provides support for critiques of oppressive and injurious facets of society inscribed on women's bodies. This essay illustrates how a phenomenological, linguistic anthropological approach fruitfully traverses clinical and cultural perspectives by directing attention beyond the embodied experience of patients diagnosed with anorexia nervosa to those who are not cli…
Two deaths and a funeral: Ritual inscriptions' affordances for mourning and moral personhood in Vietnam
Mortuary rituals constitute the social nature of death and mourning, often working to ease painful transitions for the deceased and bereaved. In Vietnam, such rituals involve objects, including commodified yet personalized text-artifacts like banners and placards bearing inscriptions in various scripts that are associated with various affects and different political-economic regimes. The material, orthographic, semantic, spatial, and temporal org…
Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam
Silenced resentments and regrets: Aging in a changing Kibbutz
The Language of Silence
Silence is polysemous, spanning affective, moral, political, and temporal dimensions. Typically defined as an absence (of sound, speech, or language), silence is also a presence and a material sign. This selective review of anthropological scholarship engaged with silence argues that, as an inherently contextual and cultural semiotic form, silence bears the signature features of any speech or listening act: It evokes a multiplicity of effects not…
Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works)