The Anthropology of absence: materializations of transcendence and loss
This text uses eleven case studies to show that in the fields of anthropology and archaeology, the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence. It also discusses how objects created to memorialize a loss have important cultural implications.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer
[2010]
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Further subjects: | B
Memorials
B Electronic books |
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| Summary: | This text uses eleven case studies to show that in the fields of anthropology and archaeology, the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence. It also discusses how objects created to memorialize a loss have important cultural implications. An Anthropology of Absence -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence -- The Corporeality of Absence -- Philosophies of Absence -- Presence and Absence in Everyday Life -- Perspectives on the Agency of Absence -- Towards an Anthropology of Absence -- References -- Chapter 2 -- People Without Things -- Introduction -- The Carnality of Absence -- Naked Society -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Missing Bodies Near-at-Hand: The Dissonant Memory and Dormant Graves of the Spanish Civil War -- Introduction -- "Bring Them Back Alive": The Absent Dead as A Site of Active Political Tension -- "The Disappeared" Versus "the Not Known of":Conceptualizing the Spanish Republican Dead -- Scattered in the Mountains but Buried Near-at-Hand: Dissonance in the Location of the Dead -- Bodies as Seeds: Organic Metaphors for the Dormancy and Instability of Human Remains -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 -- A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families -- Introduction -- Staging Absence: Organizational Sense-Making -- Transforming Absence: Constructing a Hero -- Commemorating the Dead: Objects of Acknowledgement -- Living in Others: Durable Body Parts -- Performing and Pursuing the Presence of the Dead and the Legitimacy of the Bereaved -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Derivative Presence: Loss and Lives in Limbo in the West Bank -- Introduction: Voids -- Framing Absence -- Presenting the Loss of Palestine -- Lives in Limbo -- Ambiguous Absence -- References -- Chapter 6 -- Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India -- Introduction -- Recovery and the Realm of the Ordinary -- A Monument to Mourning -- The Materiality of Loss -- Interrupted Trajectories -- Conclusion: On New Plots -- References. |
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| ISBN: | 1441955291 |