Articulate Necrographies

Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-304-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios

Santo, Diana Espírito

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Santo, Diana Espírito
Diana Espírito Santo is currently Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the Anthropology Program, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has worked on Afro-Cuban forms of spirit mediumship and Afro-Brazilian religions. Her recent publications include Developing the Dead: Mediumship and Selfhood in Cuban Espiritismo (University Press of Florida, 2015).

Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos is a senior post-doctoral researcher at Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research includes the role of divination in Afro-Cuban religiosity, as this is related to issues of personhood, the historical imagination, race and secularism, among others.

Anastasios Panagiotopoulos is a senior post-doctoral researcher at Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research includes the role of divination in Afro-Cuban religiosity, as this is related to issues of personhood, the historical imagination, race and secularism, among others.