Ghosts of Memory (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness
Redaktion: Carsten, Janet

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Produktbeschreibung

Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring the subtle and complex intersections between everyday forms of relatedness in the present and memories of the past. * Explores how various subjects are located in personal and familial histories that connect to the wider political formations of which they are a part * Closely examines diverse and intriguing case studies, e.g. Catholic residents of a decayed railway colony in Bengal, and sex workers in London * Brings together original essays authored by contemporary experts in the field * Draws on anthropology, literature, memory studies, and social history

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470691540
• Artikelnr.: 38215534

Autorenporträt

Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community (1997) and After Kinship (2004). She has co-edited About the House: Lévi-Strauss and Beyond (1995) with Stephen Hugh-Jones, and edited Cultures of Relatedness: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship (2000). Her current research deals with new approaches to kinship in anthropology, adoption reunions, kinship and memory.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction: Ghosts of Memory: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh).
2. Ruins and Ghosts: The Domestic Uncanny and the Materialization of
Anglo-Indian Genealogies in Kharagpur: Laura Bear (London School of
Economics and Political Science).
3. Enlivened Memories: Recalling Absence and Loss in Mongolia: Rebecca
Empson (University of Cambridge).
4. Connections and Disconnections of Memory and Kinship in Narratives of
Adoption Reunions in Scotland: Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh).
5. Memories of Movement and the Stillness of Place: Kinship Memory in the
Polish Highlands: Frances Pine (Goldsmiths College, University of London).
6. Moving on? Generating Homes in the Future for Displaced Northern Muslims
in Sri Lanka: Sharika Thiranagama (University of Edinburgh).
7. Belonging to What? Jewish Mixed Kinship and Historical Disruption in
Twentieth-Century Europe: Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics
and Political Science).
8. Threading Time in the Biographies of London Sex Workers: Sophie Day
(Goldsmiths College, University of London).
9. Kinship, Memory, and Time in the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patients in a North
American City: Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) and Lori Leonard (Johns
Hopkins School of Public Health).
10. The Cares of Alice Alder: Recuperating Kinship and History in
Switzerland: Michael Lambek (London School of Economics and Political
Science).
Index

Rezensionen

"A welcome addition offering rich ethnographic cross-culturalaccounts and successfully demonstrates how the work of memory playsout in intimate, informal, non-ritualistic, everyday forms andpractices of kinship." (Journal of the Royal AnthropologicalInstitute, March 2009)"This volume is full of insights into the manifold ways that people negotiate disruption in family relations, compensate for the absence of close kin, and work through loss. A fascinating and nuanced account of the play of continuity and discontinuity at the heart of human cultures."
Olivia Harris, London School of Economics

"This superb collection of papers inaugurates a new direction in the study of kinship and politics grounded in the complexities of memory. Carsten and her colleagues link everyday processes of relating with larger webs of power and authority through the ghosts - those whose existence is contested - they have in common. Thus they show that the sociality of remembering and forgetting lies above all in the creation and destruction of persons."
Gillian Feeley-Harnik, University of Michigan