Tracing Silences

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.

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