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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Janet Carsten |
| ISBN: | 9781405154222 1405154225 9781405154239 1405154233 |
| OCLC Number: | 74353752 |
| Notes: | "Essays ... originally presented at a conference on 'Kinship and Memory in Anthropology and Beyond', held at the University of Edinburgh in December 2004"--Ack. |
| Description: | xi, 253 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : ghosts of memory / Janet Carsten -- Ruins and ghosts : the domestic uncanny and the materialisation of Anglo-Indian genealogies in Kharagpur / Laura Bear -- Enlivened memories : recalling absence and loss in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson -- Connections and disconnections of memory and kinship in narratives of adoption reunions in Scotland / Janet Carsten -- Memories of movement and the stillness of place : kinship memory in the Polish highlands / Frances Pine -- Moving on? : generating homes in the future for displaced northern Muslims in Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama -- Belonging to what? : Jewish mixed kinship and historical disruption in twentieth-century Europe / Stephan Feuchtwang -- Threading time in the biographies of London sex workers / Sophie Day -- Kinship, memory, and time in the lives of HIV/AIDS : patients in a North American city / Veena Das and Lori Leonard -- The cares of Alice Alder : recuperating kinship and history in Switzerland / Michael Lambek. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Janet Carsten. |
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"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) Read more...
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