Contemporary Relics

This essay began as a conference paper and builds on work I did towards my book The Objects that Remain. Through a reading of Maggie Nelson’s memoir about the trial in her aunt’s thirty-year-old murder case, The Red Parts, I consider the rituals and rites that surround “numbered pieces of evidence”...

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Main Author: Levitt, Laura 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2021
In: Cross currents
Year: 2021, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-71
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Thing / Implements / Ritual / Cultic object / Memory
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
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