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Title:

An anthropology of absence : materializations of transcendence and loss / Mikkel Bille, Frida Hastrup, Tim Flohr S©ırensen, editors.

Publisher:

Springer,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 221 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Symbolic anthropology--Congresses.
Material culture--Congresses.
Lost articles--Congresses.
Memorials--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Bille, Mikkel
Hastrup, Frida
S©ırensen, Tim Flohr

Notes:

Most of the chapters of this book originate from the seminar The Presence of Absence: Materiality and Beyond, which held in April 2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

12. An anthropology of absence: commentary / 1. Introduction : an anthropology of absence / Lynn Meskell. 2. People without things / Severin Fowles -- pt. 2. Embodying absence: 3. Missing bodies near-at-hand : the dissonant memory and dormant graves of the Spanish Civil War / Layla Renshaw ; 4. A sense of absence : the staging of heroic deaths and ongoing lives among American organ donor families / Anja Marie Born©ı Jensen -- pt. 3. Temporalities of absence: 5. Derivative presence : loss and lives in limbo in the West Bank / Lotte Buch ; 6. Materializations of disaster : recovering lost plots in a tsunami-affected village in South India / Frida Hastrup -- pt. 4. Materializing remembrance: 7. A saturated void : anticipating and preparing presence in contemporary Danish cemetery culture / Tim Flohr S©ırensen ; 8. Bringing home the dead : photographs, family imaginaries and moral remains / Fiona R. Parrott -- pt. 5. Ambiguous materialities: 9. Absent powers : magic and loss in post-socialist Mongolia / Lars H©ıjer ; 10. Seeking providence through things : the word of God versus black cumin / Mikkel Bille ; 11. Presencing the im-material / Victor Buchli -- pt. 6. Commentary: 12. An anthropology of absence: commentary / Lynn Meskell.

ISBN:

1441955291 (ebk.)
9781441955296 (ebk.)
1441955283 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781441955289 (hbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)620044840

LCCN:

2010923406

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)