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Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness
Janet Carsten (Ed.)
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Description for Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness
Paperback. Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring the subtle and complex intersections between everyday forms of relatedness in the present and memories of the past. Editor(s): Carsten, Janet. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHM; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring the subtle and complex intersections between everyday forms of relatedness in the present and memories of the past.
- Explores how various subjects are located in personal and familial histories that connect to the wider political formations of which they are a part
- Closely examines diverse and intriguing case studies, e.g. Catholic residents of a decayed railway colony in Bengal, and sex workers in London
- Brings together original essays authored by contemporary experts in the field
- Draws on anthropology, literature, memory studies, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405154239
SKU
V9781405154239
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Ref
99-50
About Janet Carsten (Ed.)
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness
"A welcome addition offering rich ethnographic cross-cultural accounts and successfully demonstrates how the work of memory plays out in intimate, informal, non-ritualistic, everyday forms and practices of kinship." (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March 2009)