Articulate necrographies: comparative perspectives on the voices and silences of the dead

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. The collection introduces the concept of "necrography" to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of bi...

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Other Authors: Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios (Editor) , Espírito Santo, Diana (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford Berghahn 2019
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Author Notes:edited by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espírito Santo
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Summary: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. 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.
ISBN:9781789203042