Being with the dead : burial, ancestral politics, and the roots of historical consciousness /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruin, Hans (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Thinking after life : historicity and having-been
  • Thanatologies : the social meaning of burial
  • Ancestrality : ghosts, forefathers, and other dead
  • Necropolitics : contested communities and remains of the dead
  • Ossuary hermeneutics : necropolitical sites of archaeology
  • Visiting the land of the dead : history as necromancy
  • The tomb of metaphysics : writing, memory, and the arts of survival.