Articulate Necrographies: Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 178920304X ISBN 13: 9781789203042

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2019

Synopsis

Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and its interactions with the living. Traditional anthropology has tended to dichotomize societies where death “speaks” from those where death is “silent” – the latter is deemed “scientific” and the former “religious” or “magical”. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living, and asks what kinds of articulacies and silences this in turn produces in the lives of those affected.

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About the Author

Anastasios Panagiotopoulos is a senior post-doctoral researcher at Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research includes the role of divination in Afro-Cuban religiosity, as this is related to issues of personhood, the historical imagination, race and secularism, among others.

Review

“The papers in this book are scholarly and sophisticated, their data and conceptual approaches clearly stated. What makes this an original and fascinating contribution to end of life studies is the common focus on “sustaining necrographies,” culturally-specific narratives of the active overlap between the concerns of the living and the interests and experiences of their dead. This book is an impressive piece of scholarship, is clearly written, and offers an unexpected approach to the subject of death that is timely and fascinating.” · James W. Green, University of Washington

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 178920304X
• ISBN 13: 9781789203042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Panagiotopoulos Anastasios, Santo Diana Espírito