An anthropology of absence materializations of transcendence and loss
In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or o...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
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2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2010. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009456709206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Toward an Anthropology of Absence
- Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence
- People Without Things
- Embodying Absence
- Missing Bodies Near-at-Hand: The Dissonant Memory and Dormant Graves of the Spanish Civil War
- A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families
- Temporalities of Absence
- Derivative Presence: Loss and Lives in Limbo in the West Bank
- Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India
- Materializing Remembrance
- A Saturated Void: Anticipating and Preparing Presence in Contemporary Danish Cemetery Culture
- Bringing Home the Dead: Photographs, Family Imaginaries and Moral Remains
- Ambiguous Materialities
- Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist Mongolia
- Seeking Providence Through Things: The Word of God Versus Black Cumin
- Presencing the Im-Material
- Commentary
- An Anthropology of Absence: Commentary.
