Table of Contents

List of Figures and Maps
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Heirs of Antigone: Disappearances and Political Memory
Chapter 2. Suppressed Experiences
Chapter 3. Testimonies of Fragmentation, Recollections of Unity
Chapter 4. The Missing as a Set of Representations
Chapter 5. The Martyrdom of the Missing
Chapter 6. L’image Juste, or Juste une Image?
Chapter 7. Painting Absences, Describing Losses
Chapter 8. Antigone’s Doubt, Creon’s Dilemma
Chapter 9. Power, Complicity, and Public Secrecy

Bibliography
Appendices
Index

About the Author

Paul Sant Cassia is Reader in Anthropology at the University of Durham, UK, and Editor of History and Anthropology. He previously lectured at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he was Curator of the Anthropology Collections at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (1985-1990). He was Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris (Nanterre) (2000), Aix en Provence, and Malta (1992-94). He has conducted anthropological research in the Mediterranean (Cyprus, Greece, Tunisia, and Malta), and has published on politics, banditry and violence, oratory, property transmissions, family and kinship, and ethnomusicology. He is the author (with Constantina Bada) of The Making of the Modern Greek Family (Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Reviews

"A bold and original study...of an intractable conflict." - Peter Loizos, London School of Economics