Ghosts of memory: essays on remembrance and relatedness/

Other Authors: Carsten, Janet
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007
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245 1 0 |a Ghosts of memory:   |b essays on remembrance and relatedness/  |c edited by Janet Carsten 
260 |a Malden, MA ;  |b Blackwell Publishing,  |c 2007  |a Oxford: 
300 |a xi, 253 p. ;  |c 23 cm. 
500 |a "Essays ... originally presented at a conference on 'Kinship and Memory in Anthropology and Beyond', held at the University of Edinburgh in December 2004" -- Ack. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Memory  |x Social aspects 
700 1 |a Carsten, Janet  
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