Haunting Ruins - Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay

Informationen zum Autor Valentina Gamberi is a MSCA-CZ fellow at Palacky´ University Olomouc (UPOL). Previously, she held positions as an adjunct lecturer (University of Bologna, 2022–2023) and a research fellow (Research Centre for Material Culture in Leiden, 2021–2022 and the Institute of Ethnology of Academia Sinica, 2019–2020). Her most recent publication in English is Experiencing Materiality: Museum Perspectives (Berghahn, 2021). Chiara Calzana is a research fellow at the University of Turin and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is currently a member of the research team of the ERC Project ‘The World Behind a Word: An Anthropological Exploration of Fascist Practices and Meanings among European Youth (F-WORD)’. Klappentext Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present. Conjuring environmental humanities, the anthropology of history, memory and archaeology, this book delves into the complex influence of the past on the present and the future and urges scholars to consider ruins as things to think with.

Product details

• Authors: Chiara Gamberi Calzana, Valentina Calzana Gamberi
• Assisted by: Chiara Calzana (Editor), Valentina Gamberi (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2025
• EAN: 9781805398851
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-885-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Archaeology, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Anthropology (General); Archaeology