Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

Ghosts of Memory

Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness

Av Carsten, Janet Carsten

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Beskrivning

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 partClosely examines diverse and intriguing case studies, e.g. Catholic residents of a decayed railway colony in Bengal, and sex workers in LondonBrings together original essays authored by contemporary experts in the fieldDraws on anthropology, literature, memory studies, and social history

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2007-07-04
Mått: 160 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt: 517 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 266
Förlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 9781405154222

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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.

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"A welcome addition offering rich ethnographic cross-cultural accounts and successfully demonstrates how the work of memory plays out in intimate, informal, non-ritualistic, everyday forms and practices of kinship." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March 2009)

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