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Ghosts of Memory (eBook, PDF)

Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness

Redaktion: Carsten, Janet

Beschreibung

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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Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-ISTE
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470691540
• Artikelnr.: 38215534

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