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Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living. Traditional anthropology has tended to dichotomize societies where death “speaks” from those where death is “silent” – the latter is deemed “scientific” and the former “religious” or “magical”. The collection introduces the concept of “necrography” to describe the way death and the dead create their own kinds of biographies in and among the living, and asks what kinds of articulations and silences this in turn produces in the lives of those affected.
Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying the dead and their interactions with the living. Traditional anthropology has tended to dichotomize societies where death “speaks” from those where death is “silent” – the latt...
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Anastasios Panagiotopoulos is a senior post-doctoral researcher at Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research includes the role of divination in Afro-Cuban religiosity, as this is related to issues of personhood, the historical imagination, race and secularism, among others.
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos is a senior post-doctoral researcher at Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. His research includes the role of divination in Afro-Cuban religiosity, as this is related to issues of personhood, the historical imagination...
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