Articulate Necrographies : : Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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

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