An Anthropology of Absence Materializations of Transcendence and
In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects
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Mikkel Bille Frida Hastrup Tim Flohr Sørensen ●
Editors
An Anthropology of Absence Materializations of Transcendence and Loss
Editors Mikkel Bille University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark [email protected]
Frida Hastrup University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark [email protected]
Tim Flohr Sørensen University of Aarhus Hoejbjerg Denmark [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-5528-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-5529-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5529-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010923406 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
The editors would like to thank the Danish Research School of Cultural Heritage, the Graduate School of Regional Studies, and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen for funding the seminar The Presence of Absence: Materiality and Beyond in April 2008, from where most of the chapters of this book originate. We are grateful to all the participants in the seminar, including those whose papers are not presented in this volume. Chapter 9 ‘Absent Powers: magic and loss in post-socialist Mongolia’ by Lars Højer has been published in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15(3), 575–591. We are grateful to the original publisher for permitting us to reprint the work here. Copenhagen, Denmark
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Contents
Part I Toward an Anthropology of Absence 1 Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence............................................ Mikkel Bille, Frida Hastrup, and Tim Flohr Sørensen
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2 People Without Things.............................................................................. Severin Fowles
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Part II Embodying Absence 3 Missing Bodies Near-at-Hand: The Dissonant Memory and Dormant Graves of the Spanish Civil War...................................... Layla Renshaw
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4 A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families................ Anja Marie Bornø Jensen
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Part III Temporalities of Absence 5 Derivative Presence: Loss and Lives in Limbo in the West Bank..................................................................................
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