Post-Ottoman Topologies - The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State

With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.

Table des matières

Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State

Nicolas Argenti

Chapter 1. Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central Greece

Daniel M. Knight

Chapter 2. Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina

David Henig

Chapter 3. Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of Senselessness

Alice von Bieberstein

Chapter 4. The Material Life of War at the Greek Border

Laurie Kain Hart

Chapter 5. (Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media Event

Penelope Papailias

Chapter 6. Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in Lesbos

Séverine Rey

Chapter 7. "Eyes Shut, Muted Voices": Narrating and Temporalizing the Post-Civil War Era through a Monument

Dimitra Gefou-Madianou

Chapter 8. Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World

Charles Stewart

Bibliography

Index

A propos de l'auteur

Nicolas Argenti is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. He is the author of The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (2007) and coeditor of several collections, including (with Katharina Schramm) Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (2010).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nicolas Argenti
• Collaboration: Nicolas Argenti (Editeur), Argenti Nicolas (Editeur)
• Edition: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781789202403
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-240-3
• Pages: 155
• Thèmes: Studies in Social Analysis; Studies in Social Analysis
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nationalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Southeast Europe