Ghosts of Memory

Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring the subtle and complex intersections between everyday forms of relatedness in the present and memories of the past. Explores how various subjects are located in personal and familial histories that connect to the wider political formations of which they are a part Closely examines diverse and intriguing case studies, e.g. Catholic residents of a decayed railway colony in Bengal, and sex workers in London Brings together original essays authored by contemporary experts in the field Draws on anthropology, literature, memory studies, and social history

Ghosts of Memory provides an overview of literature on relatedness and memory and then moves beyond traditional approaches to the subject, exploring the subtle and complex intersections between everyday forms of relatedness in the present and memories of the past.* Explores how various subjects are located in personal and familial histories that connect to the wider political formations of which they are a part* Closely examines diverse and intriguing case studies, e.g. Catholic residents of a decayed railway colony in Bengal, and sex workers in London* Brings together original essays authored by contemporary experts in the field* Draws on anthropology, literature, memory studies, and social history

Contributors.Acknowledgments.1. Introduction: Ghosts of Memory: Janet Carsten (University ofEdinburgh).2. Ruins and Ghosts: The Domestic Uncanny and theMaterialization of Anglo-Indian Genealogies in Kharagpur: LauraBear (London School of Economics and Political Science).3. Enlivened Memories: Recalling Absence and Loss in Mongolia:Rebecca Empson (University of Cambridge).4. Connections and Disconnections of Memory and Kinship inNarratives of Adoption Reunions in Scotland: Janet Carsten(University of Edinburgh).5. Memories of Movement and the Stillness of Place: KinshipMemory in the Polish Highlands: Frances Pine (Goldsmiths CollegeUniversity of London).6. Moving on? Generating Homes in the Future for DisplacedNorthern Muslims in Sri Lanka: Sharika Thiranagama (University ofEdinburgh).7. Belonging to What? Jewish Mixed Kinship and HistoricalDisruption in Twentieth-Century Europe: Stephan Feuchtwang (LondonSchool of Economics and Political Science).8. Threading Time in the Biographies of London Sex Workers:Sophie Day (Goldsmiths College, University of London).9. Kinship, Memory, and Time in the Lives of HIV/AIDS Patientsin a North American City: Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University) andLori Leonard (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health).10. The Cares of Alice Alder: Recuperating Kinship and Historyin Switzerland: Michael Lambek (London School of Economics andPolitical Science).Index