An anthropology of absence : materializations of transcendence and loss
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An anthropology of absence : materializations of transcendence and loss
Springer, c2010
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Most of the chapters of this book originated from the seminar The Presence of Absence : Materiality and Beyond in April 2008 funded by Danish Research School of Cultural Heritage, the Graduate School of Regional Studies, and the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Cf. acknowledgements
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : an anthropology of absence / Mikkel Bille, Frida Harstrup, and Tim Flohr Sørensen
- People without things / Severin Fowles
- Missing bodies near-at-hand : the dissonant memory and dormant graves of the Spanish Civil War / Layla Renshaw
- A sense of absence : the staging of heroic deaths and ongoing lives among American organ donor families / Anja Marie Bornø Jensen
- Derivative presence : loss and lives in limbo in the West Bank / Lotte Buch
- Materializations of disaster : recovering lost plots in a tsunami-affected village in South India / Frida Hastrup
- A saturated void : anticipating and preparing presence in contemporary Danish cemetery culture / Tim Flohr Sørensen
- Bringing home the dead : photographs, family imaginaries and moral remains / Fiona R. Parrott
- Absent powers : magic and loss in post-socialist Mongolia / Lars Højer
- Seeking providence through things : the word of god versus black cumin / Mikkel Bille
- Presencing the im-material / Victor Buchli
- An anthropology of absence : commentary / Lynn Meskell