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

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Articulate Necrographies: Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead - Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios (Editor), and Santo, Diana Espírito (Editor)
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Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their 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 ...

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Articulate Necrographies: Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead 2019, Berghahn Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9781789203042

Hardcover