1st Edition
Tracing Silences Towards an Anthropology of the Unspoken and Unspeakable
Introduction—Tracing silences: Towards an anthropology of the unspoken and unspeakable
Ana Dragojlovic and Annemarie Samuels
1. Practising affect for haunted speakability: Triggering trauma through an interactive art project
Ana Dragojlovic
2. Emancipatory voice and the recursivity of authentic silence: Holocaust descendant accounts of the dialectic between silence and voice
Carol A. Kidron
3. ‘Devious silence’: Refugee art, memory activism, and the unspeakability of loss among Syrians in Turkey
Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou and Fiona Murphy
4. Respecting silence: Longing, rhythm, and Chinese temples in an age of bulldozers
Robert P. Weller
5. Strategies of silence in an age of transparency: Navigating HIV and visibility in Aceh, Indonesia
Annemarie Samuels
Afterword: Haunted histories and the silences of everyday life
Byron J. Good
Biography
Ana Dragojlovic is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She works at the intersection of feminist, queer, postcolonial and affect theory and is the author of Beyond Bali: Subaltern Citizens and Post-Colonial Intimacy (2016), co-author of Bodies and Suffering: Emotions and Relations of Care (Routledge, 2018, with Alex Broom), and co-editor of Gender, Violence, Power: Indonesia Across Time and Space (Routledge, 2020, with Kate McGregor and Hannah Loney).
Annemarie Samuels is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Her research focuses on narrative, silence, HIV/AIDS, end-of-life care, and disaster in Indonesia. She is the author of After the Tsunami: Disaster Narratives and the Remaking of Everyday Life in Aceh (2019) and co-editor of Islam and the Limits of the State: Reconfigurations of Practice, Community, and Authority in Contemporary Aceh (2016, with R. Michael Feener and David Kloos).
