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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. This title reveals that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence
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monografia Rebiun34958598 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun34958598 m o d cr cn||||||||| 100909s2010 nyua ob 001 0 eng d 2010923406 GBA9B3838 bnb 591152692 649903019 709716670 771449564 809769856 880312761 889170857 1005664980 1034883615 1044294963 1056388997 1067038243 1077801831 1086878302 1153051480 1204024189 1391841149 1413278678 9781441955296 1441955291 9781441955289 1441955283 9781282838659 MyiLibrary) 1282838652 AU@ 000048770026 AU@ 000053279751 DEBSZ 397365284 DEBSZ 449317471 NZ1 15738268 DKDLA 820120-katalog:999893222905765 978-1-4419-5528-9 Springer http://www.springerlink.com GW5XE eng pn GW5XE CDX EBLCP OCLCQ MHW OCLCQ N$T CUS UAB YDXCP UBF E7B OCLCQ OCLCF DEBSZ OCLCQ SLY COO MEAUC OCLCQ VTU Z5A ESU OCLCQ IOG LOA VT2 U3W CEF WYU OCLCQ YOU CNTRU OCLCQ W2U ERF OCLCO OCLCQ DCT LUN EUN AUD OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCL EZC U@J (3 SOC 002010 bisacsh POL 038000 bisacsh SOC 022000 bisacsh 306.4 22 C912. 4 clc An anthropology of absence materializations of transcendence and loss Mikkel Bille, Frida Hastrup, Tim Flohr Srensen, editors New York London Springer 2010 New York London New York London Springer 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Most of the chapters of this book originate from the seminar The Presence of Absence: Materiality and Beyond, which held in April 2008 Includes bibliographical references and index pt. 1.) Toward an anthropology of absence: 1.) Introduction : an anthropology of absence Mikkel Bille, Frida Hastrup, and Tim Flohr Srensen ; 2.) People without things Severin Fowles -- pt. 2.) Embodying absence: 3.) Missing bodies near-at-hand : the dissonant memory and dormant graves of the Spanish Civil War Layla Renshaw ; 4.) A sense of absence : the staging of heroic deaths and ongoing lives among American organ donor families Anja Marie Born Jensen -- pt. 3.) Temporalities of absence: 5.) Derivative presence : loss and lives in limbo in the West Bank Lotte Buch ; 6.) Materializations of disaster : recovering lost plots in a tsunami-affected village in South India Frida Hastrup -- pt. 4.) Materializing remembrance: 7.) A saturated void : anticipating and preparing presence in contemporary Danish cemetery culture Tim Flohr Srensen ; 8.) Bringing home the dead : photographs, family imaginaries and moral remains Fiona R. Parrott -- pt. 5.) Ambiguous materialities: 9.) Absent powers : magic and loss in post-socialist Mongolia Lars Hjer ; 10.) Seeking providence through things : the word of God versus black cumin Mikkel Bille ; 11.) Presencing the im-material Victor Buchli -- pt. 6.) Commentary:) 12.) An anthropology of absence: commentary Lynn Meskell University staff and students only. Requires University Computer Account login off-campus 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. This title reveals that the absence of objects can be just as telling as their presence Symbolic anthropology Material culture Lost articles Memorials Anthropology Anthropology Social Sciences Anthropology Cultural Heritage Symbolisme en anthropologie Culture matérielle Objets perdus Anthropologie material culture (discipline) anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE- Anthropology- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE- Public Policy- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE- Popular Culture. Material culture. Lost articles. Memorials. Symbolic anthropology. Social Science. Lost articles. Material culture. Memorials. Symbolic anthropology. dissertations. Academic theses. Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Bille, Mikkel Hastrup, Frida Srensen, Tim Flohr Springer eBooks Springer eBooks Print version Anthropology of absence. New York ; London : Springer, 2010 9781441955289 1441955283 (DLC) 2010923406 (OCoLC)620044840