An Anthropology of Absence

1. Introduction: An Anthropology of Absence
Mikkel Bille, Frida Hastrup, Tim Flohr Sørensen

2. People Without Things
Severin Fowles

3. Missing Bodies Near-at-Hand: The Dissonant Memory and Dormant Graves of the Spanish Civil War
Layla Renshaw

4. A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families
Anja Marie Bornø Jensen

5. Derivative Presence: Loss and Lives in Limbo in the West Bank
Lotte Buch

6. Materializations of Disaster: Recovering Lost Plots in a Tsunami-Affected Village in South India
Frida Hastrup

7. A Saturated Void: Anticipating and Preparing Presence in Contemporary Danish Cemetery Culture
Tim Flohr Sørensen

8. Bringing Home the Dead: Photographs, Family Imaginaries and Moral Remains
Fiona R. Parrott

9. Absent Powers: Magic and Loss in Post-socialist Mongolia
Lars Højer

10. Seeking Providence Through Things: The Word of God Versus Black Cumin
Mikkel Bille

11. Presencing the Im-Material
Victor Buchli

12. An Anthropology of Absence: Commentary
Lynn Meskell

Keywords: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Cultural Heritage