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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Table of 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.