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Janet (Hrsg.) Carsten

Ghosts of Memory

Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness

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Catholic residents of a decayed railway colony in Bengal are haunted by domestic ghosts. Sex workers in London recount pasts that are fragmented among different lives lived under different names. Through a close study of such examples, Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness explores the subtle and complex intersections between everyday forms of relatedness in the present and memories of the past. The essays collected here examine how their various subjects are located in personal and familial histories that connect to the wider political formations of which they are a part. They point to the myriad articulations - of temporal… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-470-69154-0
  • EAN: 9780470691540
  • Produktnummer: 13798891
  • Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 826 KB

Über den Autor


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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