Haunting Ruins

Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay

Valentina Gamberi, Chiara Calzana (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-885-1 (ISBN)

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Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present. Conjuring environmental humanities, the anthropology of history, memory and archaeology, this book delves into the complex influence of the past on the present and the future and urges scholars to consider ruins as things to think with.

Valentina Gamberi is a MSCA-CZ fellow at Palacký University Olomouc (UPOL). Previously, she held positions as an adjunct lecturer (University of Bologna, 2022–2023) and a research fellow (Research Centre for Material Culture in Leiden, 2021–2022 and the Institute of Ethnology of Academia Sinica, 2019–2020). Her most recent publication in English is Experiencing Materiality: Museum Perspectives (Berghahn, 2021).

List of Figures

Introduction: For an Ethnographic Microhistory through Ruins

Chiara Calzana and Valentina Gamberi

Part I: Ethnographic Lenses for Ruination

Chapter 1. A Landscape of Failures: The Historical Ecology of Ruins in the Po River Delta

Francesco Danesi Della Sala

Chapter 2. From Desire to Avoidance: Contrasting Interactions with the Rubble of Familiar Spaces Affected by an Earthquake and a Planned Flood (China)

Katiana Le Mentec

Part II: Hauntings

Chapter 3. A Scattered Self: Composing Subjectivities through Ruined Houses (Taiwan)

Valentina Gamberi

Chapter 4. Contested Memoryscapes: Post-Disaster Ruins and Memorial Practices in the Vajont Valley (Italy)

Chiara Calzana

Chapter 5. Ruins of Remains: Unpacking Narratives about a Cemetery of ‘Political Victims’

Fang-I Chu

Part III: Curating Ruins

Chapter 6. Ruins in the Forest: Conserving, Abandoning and Feeling Heritage in the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)

Giacomo Nerici

Chapter 7. Soba Past versus Soba Present: Ethnography of Soba Archeological Site (Sudan)

Marciej Kurcz

Afterword: The Only Real Nation Is Ruination

Francisco Martinez

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
Zusatzinfo	17 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-885-7 / 1805398857
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-885-1 / 9781805398851
Zustand	Neuware