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Ghosts of memory : essays on remembrance and relatedness
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Ghosts of memory : essays on remembrance and relatedness

Author: Janet Carsten
Publisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
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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