Articulate Necrographies : : Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead / / ed. by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos, Diana Espírito Santo.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Banaggia, Gabriel,; Conklin, Beth,; Course, Magnus,; Espírito Santo, Diana,; Marouda, Marina,; Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios,; Robben, Antonius C.G.M.,; Romberg, Raquel,; Straight, Bilinda,; Torri, Davide,; Vitebsky, Piers,; Walter, Tony,
• HerausgeberIn: Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios,; Santo, Diana Espírito,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living. Traditional anthropology has tended to dichotomize societies where death “speaks” from those where death is “silent” – the latter is deemed “scientific” and the former “religious” or “magical”. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living, and asks what kinds of articulations and silences this in turn produces in the lives of those affected.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Necrographic Frameworks -- Chapter 1 Voices and Silences of the Dead in Western Modernity -- Chapter 2. Coping with Massive Urban Death: The Mutual Constitution of Mourning and Recovery in World War II’s Bombing War -- Chapter 3. Biographies and Necrographies in Exchange: From the Self to the Other -- Part II. Necrographic Observations -- Chapter 4. The Making of Spirit Bodies and Death Perspectives in Afro-Cuban Religion -- Chapter 5. Sensory Necrography: The Flow of Signs and Sensations in the Corpse -- Chapter 6. Unanchored Deaths: Grieving the Unplaceable in Samburu -- Chapter 7. The Sociality of Death: Life Potentialities and the Vietnamese Dead -- Chapter 8. “Enlightened” Spirits: Modern Exchanges between the Living and the Dead under Spiritism -- Chapter 9. Channeling the Flow: Dealing with Death in an African-Based Religion -- Chapter 10. Of Shadows and Fears: Nepalese Ghost Stories from Classical Texts and Folklore to Social Media -- Chapter 11. Death Isn’t What It Used to Be: Animist and Baptist Ontologies in Tribal India -- Afterword. The Necrographic Imagination -- Index