Harris Solomon, "Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma" (Duke UP, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Importance of Transporting an Injured Body
The chapters in the book are organized around the different practices that trace how trauma moves from the side of the accident up through dissection and even recovery. I thought it was very interesting every chapter revealed the connections between bodies and movement on several registers, and how the social relations institutions in the city itself come to bear upon the very possibility of movement and mobility. For instance, in the first chapter carrying lifelines of transfer, you show how the ambulance is not just conveying the injured, but that it conveys and is embedded in social inequality in the laboring lives of homiles like Lalit and of ambulance drivers.
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