Tracing Silences: Towards an Anthropology of the Unspoken and Unspeakable

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Ana Dragojlovic (The University of Melbourne, Australia) Annemarie Samuels (Leiden University, Netherlands)

Tracing Silences

Towards an Anthropology of the Unspoken and Unspeakable

Ana Dragojlovic (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Annemarie Samuels (Leiden University, Netherlands)

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Routledge
28 November 2024

Communication studies; Social & cultural anthropology

Silence is crucial to our social world. Responding to the growing scholarly interest in social sciences and humanities for more in-depth engagements with social silence, this book explores what it means to trace silences and to include traces of silences in our scholarly representations.

What qualifies as silence, and how does it relate to articulation, to voice, visibility and representation? How can silences be sensed and experienced viscerally as well as narratively? And how do we think with and interpret silences in the face of potential unknowability? Grounded in ethnographic research in the Netherlands, Israel, Turkey, China, and Indonesia, the chapters all contribute to a theorization of silence that embraces multivocality, unintelligibility and uncertainty of interpretation. As a collection of cutting-edge scholarly work at the intersection of anthropology and history, Tracing Silences argues for an in-depth engagement with the unspeakable and unspoken, through a range of modes and methods, and in the historical, social, and political ways in which they emerge and are enacted in the particularities of people’s lives.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, anthropology, sociology, political science and archival studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.

Edited by: Ana Dragojlovic (The University of Melbourne Australia), Annemarie Samuels (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9781032496887
ISBN 10: 1032496886
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction—Tracing silences: Towards an anthropology of the unspoken and unspeakable 1. Practising affect for haunted speakability: Triggering trauma through an interactive art project 2. Emancipatory voice and the recursivity of authentic silence: Holocaust descendant accounts of the dialectic between silence and voice 3. ‘Devious silence’: Refugee art, memory activism, and the unspeakability of loss among Syrians in Turkey 4. Respecting silence: Longing, rhythm, and Chinese temples in an age of bulldozers 5. Strategies of silence in an age of transparency: Navigating HIV and visibility in Aceh, Indonesia Afterword: Haunted histories and the silences of everyday life

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).