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Artifactual
Forensic and Documentary Knowing
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Elizabeth Anne Davis
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, activists, and artists process and reckon with civil and state violence that led to the enduring division of the island, using forensic and documentary materials to retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities.
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Elizabeth Anne Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and author of Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece, also published by Duke University Press.
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“Artifactual is a brilliant exploration of knowledge production through forensic science and documentary filmmaking in postwar Cyprus. Raising penetrating questions about knowledge and the making of truth and evidence in anthropology, Elizabeth Anne Davis makes significant contributions to the anthropologies of missing persons, forensics, and visual anthropology.”
-- Yael Navaro, author of The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity
“The truth in situations of deep conflict may be impossibly elusive, yet people are often forced to reconcile with that opacity. In this beautiful and sensitive book, Elizabeth Anne Davis explores the reckoning with historical violence staged by forensic and documentary knowledge. Exhumed bones and archival images cannot settle a haunted past. But, as Davis shows, these artifacts and those who work with them can achieve something difficult and profound, marking out paths toward a plausible future.”
-- Anand Pandian, author of A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Prologue. Nobody Knows a Thing
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Introduction
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Forensic
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Documentary
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Epilogue. Our Own Ghosts
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Appendix. Archive
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Notes
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Filmography
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References
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Index
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eBook published on:
July 14, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781478024453
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400
eBook ISBN:
9781478024453
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Professional and scholarly;
