The anthropological work on care has sought to diversify conceptualizations of the concept, to challenge how we recognize it and identify its happening, and to critique its complicities and caveats. This volume revolutionizes this framing by articulating a mode of care that remains dynamic, and which acknowledges the changeability of care and caring over time and place. These authors address a fundamental tension in the theoretical and conceptual of work of care to date; namely, that attempts to identify care or problematize it often end up staying it, even when that staidness expresses complexity. By turning to the concept of the remnant and bringing to the anthropological work on care the framework of attachment, these authors elucidate something that may be shifting, ephemeral, deceptive, haunting, or compromised, but, in its changeling nature, reveals a persistent facet of intersubjectivity and the means by which people tack together a world in relation.

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Dr. Lauren Cubellis is Head of the DFG Emmy Noether Research Group Situated Care: Subjectivity, Knowledge, and Labor, at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research focuses on the relationship between psyche and society, the contingency of knowledge production, and work and the self in innovative spaces of mental health care, and has been supported by the DFG, the Volkswagen Stiftung, The German Studies Association, the NSF, the DAAD, and the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Her writing has been featured in journals such as Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, and Qualitative Research Methods, among others.

Dr. Rebecca J. Lester is a professor of medical and psychological anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, where her research focuses on embodiment, intersubjectivity, and cultural practices of self-cultivation. She is also a licensed practicing psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders, trauma, self-harm, and relationship challenges. Dr. Lester has published two award-winning monographs, Jesus in Our Wombs: Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent and Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America, and two edited volumes. Her work has also appeared in Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly, among other journals, as well as in public outlets including Scientific American, The Conversation, and Psyche. She is a former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, and past-president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.