Configuring Contagion

Lotte Meinert is Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. Her book publications include Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of Health Environments beyond Determinism (UCL, 2020) edited with Jens Seeberg and Andreas Roepstorff and Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency (Berghahn, 2020) edited with Michael Flaherty and Anne Line Dalsgård.

List of Figures



Introduction: Configuring Contagion in Biosocial epidemics

Lotte Meinert and Jens Seeberg



Chapter 1. Gender Configurations and Suicide in Northern Uganda

Susan Whyte and Henry Oboke



Chapter 2. Configuring Epidemic Suicide in Oceania

Ted Lowe



Chapter 3. Haunted by the Future: Autism and the Spectre of Prison – Configuring Race and Disability in the African American Community

Cheryl Mattingly and Stephanie Keeney Parks



Chapter 4. Configuring Affection: Family Experiences of Obesity and Social Contagion in Denmark

Lone Grøn



Chapter 5. Health Activists and Trauma Contagion: Cultural Epidemics and Raising Awareness of Trauma in Post-conflict, Post-tsunami Aceh

Jesse Hession Grayman, Mary-Jo DelVeccio Good and Byron Good



Chapter 6. Touched by Violence: Configuring Affliction after War in Northern Uganda

Lars Williams and Lotte Meinert



Chapter 7. ‘These Spirit Attacks are Like an Epidemic’: Spirit Possession as Affective Contagion in Niger

Adeline Masquelier, Abouzeidi Maidouka Dillé and Ly Amadou H. Belko



Chapter 8. Haunted by Internet Porn: Configuration of a Hidden Contagion

Doug Hollan



Chapter 9. Contagious Configurations: Reproductive Governance from Abortion to Zika virus in Latin America

Lynn M. Morgan



Chapter 10. Figures of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.

Jens Seeberg, Bijaylaxmi Rautray and Shyama Mohapatra



Afterword: Epidemics and Ghosts

Byron Good



Index