Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Necrographic Frameworks
5. Chapter 1 Voices and Silences of the Dead in Western Modernity 15
6. Chapter 2. Coping with Massive Urban Death: The Mutual Constitution of Mourning and Recovery in World War II’s Bombing War 40
7. Chapter 3. Biographies and Necrographies in Exchange: From the Self to the Other 63
8. Part II. Necrographic Observations
9. Chapter 4. The Making of Spirit Bodies and Death Perspectives in Afro-Cuban Religion 83
10. Chapter 5. Sensory Necrography: The Flow of Signs and Sensations in the Corpse 106
11. Chapter 6. Unanchored Deaths: Grieving the Unplaceable in Samburu 125
12. Chapter 7. The Sociality of Death: Life Potentialities and the Vietnamese Dead 141
13. Chapter 8. “Enlightened” Spirits: Modern Exchanges between the Living and the Dead under Spiritism 165
14. Chapter 9. Channeling the Flow: Dealing with Death in an African-Based Religion 186
15. Chapter 10. Of Shadows and Fears: Nepalese Ghost Stories from Classical Texts and Folklore to Social Media 205
16. Chapter 11. Death Isn’t What It Used to Be: Animist and Baptist Ontologies in Tribal India 227
17. Afterword. The Necrographic Imagination 244
18. Index 251