Articulate necrographies : comparative perspectives on the voices and silences of the dead / edited by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espirito Santo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios

Contributor:

Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios (Anthropologist), editor.

Espirito Santo, Diana, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, [2019]

Summary:

Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living. Traditional anthropology has tended to dichotomize societies where death “speaks” from those where death is “silent” – the latter is deemed “scientific” and the former “religious” or “magical”. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living, and asks what kinds of articulations and silences this in turn produces in the lives of those affected.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Necrographic Frameworks

Chapter 1 Voices and Silences of the Dead in Western Modernity

Chapter 2. Coping with Massive Urban Death: The Mutual Constitution of Mourning and Recovery in World War II’s Bombing War

Chapter 3. Biographies and Necrographies in Exchange: From the Self to the Other

Part II. Necrographic Observations

Chapter 4. The Making of Spirit Bodies and Death Perspectives in Afro-Cuban Religion

Chapter 5. Sensory Necrography: The Flow of Signs and Sensations in the Corpse

Chapter 6. Unanchored Deaths: Grieving the Unplaceable in Samburu

Chapter 7. The Sociality of Death: Life Potentialities and the Vietnamese Dead

Chapter 8. “Enlightened” Spirits: Modern Exchanges between the Living and the Dead under Spiritism

Chapter 9. Channeling the Flow: Dealing with Death in an African-Based Religion

Chapter 10. Of Shadows and Fears: Nepalese Ghost Stories from Classical Texts and Folklore to Social Media

Chapter 11. Death Isn’t What It Used to Be: Animist and Baptist Ontologies in Tribal India

Afterword. The Necrographic Imagination

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78920-305-8

OCLC:

1303457112