ISBN:
1282838652
,
9781441955296
,
9781282838659
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Social sciences
;
Humanities
;
Anthropology
Abstract:
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 other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the contributions reveal that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence, while the objects created to memorialize a loss also have important cultural implications. Covering everything fr
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
"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
Description / Table of Contents:
Commemorating the Dead: Objects of AcknowledgementLiving 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Interrupted TrajectoriesConclusion: On New Plots; References; Chapter 7; A Saturated Void: Anticipating and Preparing Presence in Contemporary Danish Cemetery Culture; Introduction; Absence and Commemoration; Design Idioms in Danish Cemeteries; Absences at Danish Cemeteries; Temporary Voids: Death As Completion; Incomplete Information: Death As Continuation; Contained Absence: The Textual and the Material; Textual Gaps; Material Gaps; Conclusion: Generative Lacunae; References; Chapter 8; Bringing Home the Dead: Photographs, Family Imaginaries and Moral Remains; References; Chapter 9
Description / Table of Contents:
Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist MongoliaIntroduction; Unknown Spirit Powers in Contemporary Mongolia; Socialism and the Labor of the Negative; Manufacturing Absence in a Written Buddhist Charm; Effects of Absence: Indeterminacy and Avoidance; Conclusion; References; Chapter 10; Seeking Providence Through Things: The Word of God Versus Black Cumin; Introduction; The Physicality of Protection; The Ambiguous Immateriality of the Word of God; Reformulating Absence; Conclusion; References; Chapter 11; Presencing the Im-Material; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
The Absent Present, Propinquity and Things
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4419-5529-6
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