Articulate necrographies : comparative perspectives on the voices and silences of the dead /: comparative perspectives on the voices and silences of the dead. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espírito Santo.
• Editors: (Anthropologist), Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios; Espirito Santo, Diana
• Contents: Introduction ; Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espírito Santo PART I: NECROGRAPHIC FRAMEWORKS Chapter 1. Voices and Silences of the Dead in Western Modernity; Tony Walter Chapter 2. Coping with Massive Urban Death: The Mutual Constitution of Mourning and Recovery in World War Two's Bombing War; Antonius C.G.M. Robben Chapter 3. Biographies and Necrographies in Exchange: From the Self to the Other; Anastasios Panagiotopoulos PART II: NECROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS Chapter 4. The Making of Spirit Bodies and Death Perspectives in Afro-Cuban Religion; Diana Espírito Santo Chapter 5. Sensory Necrography: The Flow of Signs and Sensations in the Corpse; Beth Conklin Chapter 6. Unanchored Deaths: Grieving the Unplaceable in Samburu; Bilinda Straight Chapter 7. The Sociality of Death: Life Potentialities and the Vietnamese Dead; Marina Marouda Chapter 8. Enlightened Spirits: A Historical-anthropological Perspective on Spiritism, Science, Modernity and the Vitality of Spirits under Neoliberalism; Raquel Romberg Chapter 9. Channeling the Flow: Dealing with Death in an African-based Religion; Gabriel Banaggia Chapter 10. Of Shadows and Fears: Nepalese Ghost Stories from Classical Texts and Folklore to the Social Media; Davide Torri Chapter 11. Death isn't What it Used to Be: Animist and Baptist Ontologies in Tribal India; Piers Vitebsky Afterword: The Necrographic Imagination; Magnus Course Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.9; Death; Dead; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789203059; 1789203058
• Related ISBNs: 9781789203042
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 26, 2019).
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