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Introduction
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espírito Santo
PART I: NECROGRAPHIC FRAMEWORKS
Chapter 1. Voices and Silences of the Dead in Western Modernity
Tony Walter
Chapter 2. Coping with Massive Urban Death: The Mutual Constitution of Mourning and Recovery in World War Two's Bombing War
Antonius C.G.M. Robben
Chapter 3. Biographies and Necrographies in Exchange: From the Self to the Other
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos
PART II: NECROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS
Chapter 4. The Making of Spirit Bodies and Death Perspectives in Afro-Cuban Religion
Diana Espírito Santo
Chapter 5. Sensory Necrography: The Flow of Signs and Sensations in the Corpse
Beth Conklin
Chapter 6. Unanchored Deaths: Grieving the Unplaceable in Samburu
Bilinda Straight
Chapter 7. The Sociality of Death: Life Potentialities and the Vietnamese Dead
Marina Marouda
Chapter 8. Enlightened Spirits: A Historical-anthropological Perspective on Spiritism, Science, Modernity and the Vitality of Spirits under Neoliberalism
Raquel Romberg
Chapter 9. Channeling the Flow: Dealing with Death in an African-based Religion
Gabriel Banaggia
Chapter 10. Of Shadows and Fears: Nepalese Ghost Stories from Classical Texts and Folklore to the Social Media
Davide Torri
Chapter 11. Death isn't What it Used to Be: Animist and Baptist Ontologies in Tribal India
Piers Vitebsky
Afterword: The Necrographic Imagination
Magnus Course
Index
Articulate Necrographies
Comparative Perspectives on the Voices and Silences of the Dead
Edited by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana EspĂrito Santo
Afterword by Magnus Course
272 pages, 1 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-304-2 Hb Published (July 2019)
eISBN 978-1-78920-305-9 eBook