An Anthropology of Absence Materializations of Transcendence and Loss /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bille, Mikkel (Editor), Hastrup, Frida (Editor), Soerensen, Tim Flohr (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Anthropology.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.

In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or o...