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An Anthropology of Disappearance : Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing, Hardback Book

An Anthropology of Disappearance : Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing Hardback

Edited by Laura Huttunen, Gerhild Perl

Part of the EASA Series series

Hardback

Description

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.

The combination of disappearance through political violence, crime, voluntary disappearance and migration make this book a unique combination.

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