An anthropology of disappearance: politics, intimacies and alternative ways of knowing

"All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state's bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultu...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Huttunen, Laura (HerausgeberIn), Perl, Gerhild 1980- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn [2023]
Schriftenreihe:EASA series 46
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Links:http://digitale-objekte.hbz-nrw.de/storage2/2024/04/15/file_13/9543253.pdf
Zusammenfassung:"All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state's bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts. It takes an anthropological perspective on questions about human life and death, absence and presence, rituals and mourning, liminality and structures, citizenship and personhood as well as agency and power. The chapters explore the political dimension of disappearances and address methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of researching disappearances and the disappeared"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Umfang:viii, 290 Seiten
ISBN:9781805390725