Ghosts of memory
Subtitle: essays on remembrance and relatedness
By: edited by Janet Carsten.
Contributors: Carsten, Janet.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781405154222; 9781405154239
Subjects: Kinship.; Memory -- Social aspects.
Notes: "Essays ... originally presented at a conference on 'Kinship and Memory in Anthropology and Beyond', held at the University of Edinburgh in December 2004"--Ack.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : ghosts of memory / Janet Carsten; title: Ruins and ghosts : the domestic uncanny and the materialisation of Anglo-Indian genealogies in Kharagpur / Laura Bear; title: Enlivened memories : recalling absence and loss in Mongolia / Rebecca Empson; title: Connections and disconnections of memory and kinship in narratives of adoption reunions in Scotland / Janet Carsten; title: Memories of movement and the stillness of place : kinship memory in the Polish highlands / Frances Pine; title: Moving on? : generating homes in the future for displaced northern Muslims in Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama; title: Belonging to what? : Jewish mixed kinship and historical disruption in twentieth-century Europe / Stephan Feuchtwang; title: Threading time in the biographies of London sex workers / Sophie Day; title: Kinship, memory, and time in the lives of HIV/AIDS : patients in a North American city / Veena Das and Lori Leonard; title: The cares of Alice Alder : recuperating kinship and history in Switzerland / Michael Lambek.