Harris Solomon, "Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma" (Duke UP, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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What Is Your Book About Traffic?
I think your book provides a fabulous example of opening up many more questions around ethnographic methodology and like how we approach our interlocutors. In this deeply insightful book you advance an argument about how traffic can constitute a social field, an embodied process and the clinical infrastructure beyond the accident scene. You say bodies may appear to be traffic but traffic does not necessarily leave bodies. And so it has this property of being almost fluid, where it is both stuck in this and flow.
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