Peter Jan Margry is an ethnologist and a senior research fellow at the Meertens Institute, at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. He is guest professor of Religious Studies at the University of Leuven. His work focuses on contemporary religious cultures, rituals, and cultural memory. He has published many books and articles in these fields, among them a four-volume standard work on the pilgrimage culture in the Netherlands.

“It is evident that the editors have gone to some considerable effort to assemble a rich, diverse ethnographic treasure-trove, and to anticipate any charges of Eurocentrism by also drawing on examples of makeshift memorials from other parts of the world. Meanwhile, the thoughtful reflexivity demonstrated by several of the contributors vis-à-vis their own emotional and epistemological locations within the case studies is refreshing and praiseworthy.” · Folklore

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Rethinking Memorialization: The Concept of Grassroots MemorialsPeter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-CarreteroPART I: NEGOTIATING SOCIETAL VIOLENCEChapter 1. “Difficult Remembrance”: Memorializing Mafi a Victims in PalermoDeborah Puccio-DenChapter 2. Ritual Mediations of Violent Death: An Ethnography of the Theo van Gogh Memorial Site, AmsterdamIrene StengsChapter 3. Between Commemoration and Social Activism: Spontaneous Shrines, Grassroots Memorialization, and the Public Ritualesque in DerryJack SantinoChapter 4. Memorializing Shooters with Their Victims: Columbine, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois UniversitySylvia GriderPART II: CONTESTING OBJECTIONABLE DEATH Chapter 5. Marking Death: Grief, Protest, and Politics after a Fatal Traffic AccidentMonika RulfsChapter 6. Ghost Bikes: Memorialization and Protest on City StreetsRobert Thomas DoblerChapter 7. Mourning the Polish Pope in Polish CitiesEwa KlekotChapter 8. Remembering La Tragedia: Commemorations of the 1999 Floods in Venezuela 208Sandrine RevetPART III: SOCIABILITY AND REFLEXIVE ANTITERRORISMChapter 9. Street Shrines and the Writing of Disaster: 9/11, New York, 2001Béatrice FraenkelChapter 10. The Madrid Train Bombings: Enacting the Emotional Body at the March 11 Grassroots MemorialsCristina Sánchez-CarreteroChapter 11. Purification and Remembrance: Eastern and Western Ways of Dealing with the Bali BombingHuub de JongePART IV: INSTRUMENTALIZING REPOSITORIES OF MEMORYChapter 12. September 11: Museums, Spontaneous Memorials, and HistoryJames B. GardnerChapter 13. Piazza Carlo Giuliani - G8 Summit, Genoa 2001: Death, Testimony, MemoryFabio Caffarena and Carlo StiacciniChapter 14. Memorializing a Controversial Politician: The "Heritagization" of a Materialized Vox PopuliPeter Jan MargryNotes on ContributorsIndex