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Ghosts of memory : essays on remembrance and relatedness / [edited by] Janet Carsten.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.Description: xi, 253 p. : 24 cmISBN:
  • 978-1-4051-5422-2 (alk. paper)
  • 1405154225 (alk. paper)
  • 978-1-4051-5423-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1405154233 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153.1/2 22
LOC classification:
  • GN 487 .G56 2007
Online resources:
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.
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"Essays ... originally presented at a conference on 'Kinship and Memory in Anthropology and Beyond', held at the University of Edinburgh in December 2004"--Ack.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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