... ritual infrastructure excarnation cremation ...

... Atop the glitzy neighborhood of Malabar Hill in Mumbai rests the poetically named tower of silence funerary complex wherein Parsis still leave their dead to be excarnated by carrion birds. Chapter 5 examines the role of mortuary ritual infrastructure and its relation to critical disputes...

... This chapter observes the early signs of the process of Yugoslavia’s tragic destruction in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the loosening and dissolving of fixed ritualized and standardized forms of being and living in the Yugoslav People’s Army. The protective capacity of ritualized forms...

... experience disruption and blackouts. These moments interact with the infrastructural divisions between “ populares ” and “culturalists,” which Guatemalanist ethnography has mirrored, split between attending to political economy, war, ethnic/class relations, and gender inequalities and to a focus on village...

... in order to count the bones and thereby ground the statistics and testimonies of truth commission reports and to reembed people back into family structures, rituals of mourning, and court cases against perpetrators, like General Ríos Montt. The chapter examines the controversy over the number 200,000...

... ” (being). Like electricity, the energies surrounding ethnic revitalization run in currents that can experience disruption and blackouts. These moments interact with the infrastructural divisions between “ populares ” and “culturalists,” which Guatemalanist ethnography has mirrored, split between attending...