An Anthropology of Absence Materializations of Transcendence and Loss /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bille, Mikkel. (Editor), Hastrup, Frida. (Editor), Soerensen, Tim Flohr. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Humanities.; Anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5529-6

In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Presenting the Immaterial
• Negative Archaeology and the Limits of Materialism
• Seeking Providence through Things
• Anticipating Presence at a Contemporary Danish Cemetary
• Voluntary Death and Suicide among Siberian Chukchi
• Perceptions of Immortality in Meaningful Deaths
• Death Display in London Households
• Making Presence of Absence
• Bearing Witness to Disaster
• The Present/Absent Status of Missing Human Remains from the Spanish Civil War
• Landscape Archaeology and the Garden as a Historical Record.