Articulate Necrographies

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.

Introduction

Anastasios Panagiotopoulos and Diana Espírito Santo



PART I: NECROGRAPHIC FRAMEWORKS



Chapter 1. Voices and Silences of the Dead in Western Modernity

Tony Walter



Chapter 2. Coping with Massive Urban Death: The Mutual Constitution of Mourning and Recovery in World War Two's Bombing War

Antonius C.G.M. Robben



Chapter 3. Biographies and Necrographies in Exchange: From the Self to the Other

Anastasios Panagiotopoulos



PART II: NECROGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS



Chapter 4. The Making of Spirit Bodies and Death Perspectives in Afro-Cuban Religion

Diana Espírito Santo



Chapter 5. Sensory Necrography: The Flow of Signs and Sensations in the Corpse

Beth Conklin



Chapter 6. Unanchored Deaths: Grieving the Unplaceable in Samburu

Bilinda Straight



Chapter 7. The Sociality of Death: Life Potentialities and the Vietnamese Dead

Marina Marouda



Chapter 8. Enlightened Spirits: A Historical-anthropological Perspective on Spiritism, Science, Modernity and the Vitality of Spirits under Neoliberalism

Raquel Romberg



Chapter 9. Channeling the Flow: Dealing with Death in an African-based Religion

Gabriel Banaggia



Chapter 10. Of Shadows and Fears: Nepalese Ghost Stories from Classical Texts and Folklore to the Social Media

Davide Torri



Chapter 11. Death isn't What it Used to Be: Animist and Baptist Ontologies in Tribal India

Piers Vitebsky



Afterword: The Necrographic Imagination

Magnus Course



Index