Ghosts of memory : essays on remembrance and relatedness / edited by Janet Carsten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carsten, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Physical Description:

xi, 253 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Contents:

Introduction : ghosts of memory / Janet Carsten

Ruins and ghosts : the domestic uncanny and the materialisation of Anglo-Indian genealogies in Kharagpur / Laura Bear

Enlivened memories : recalling absence and loss in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson

Connections and disconnections of memory and kinship in narratives of adoption reunions in Scotland / Janet Carsten

Memories of movement and the stillness of place : kinship memory in the Polish highlands / Frances Pine

Moving on? : generating homes in the future for displaced northern Muslims in Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama

Belonging to what? : Jewish mixed kinship and historical disruption in twentieth-century Europe / Stephan Feuchtwang

Threading time in the biographies of London sex workers / Sophie Day

Kinship, memory, and time in the lives of HIV/AIDS : patients in a North American city / Veena Das and Lori Leonard

The cares of Alice Alder : recuperating kinship and history in Switzerland / Michael Lambek.

Notes:

"Essays ... originally presented at a conference on 'Kinship and Memory in Anthropology and Beyond', held at the University of Edinburgh in December 2004"--Ack.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405154222

1405154225

9781405154239

1405154233

OCLC:

74353752