L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Lebron James, Shared Space, Major Depressive Episode
Document Summary
Arthur kleinman came up with term social suffering in the 1990s. Natural disasters associated with mass destruction, and sometimes death. Roll out of fema wasn"t robustly organized prior to katrina. Evacuation wasn"t taken in a coordinated prior to katrina. A lot of people left in new orleans had to leave homes and live in super dome. Health resources available were locally lacking, took a lot of time to get there, lack of health infrastructure. Epidemiology of meta illness: psychological distress after, substance abuse, major depressive episodes. Haiti infrastructure is incomparably worse, massive fatality: still has recovered, infrastructure destroyed, already lacking. Katrina critical event, social suffering that we as a society identify as observers of suffering, generational suffering, becomes an identity. Core concept in late 90s and moved in with structural violence into the 2000s and resent day. Interpersonal can share face to face suffering, suffer together, not alone, familial. Communal whole communities feel suffering; community based suffering and coping.
