Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; PART I: Interfaces; 1. On board/on border; The ethnographic miniatures; Theory in practice; 2. Dialogue/the dialogical; Appendix I: On performance: theater, film versus ritual; Appendix II: The public face of anthropology; PART II: Death drives in the city; 3. Theatrocracy and memory in austerity times; Awakening; Third stream memory; The aperceptual present; Theatrokratia and citizenship; The cartographic order; Silent détournement: from cities of the dead to death in the city

Space profanedGendering the sacred; The pre-secular modern; Grave selfies; The second life; 4. Modern cities of silence: Disasters, nature and the petrified bodies of history; The city of statues; Excavating private memory; Bodies in ruins; The city without walls; The object(s) of memory: managing the uninheritable; Re-membering the present; Ruins and ashes: re-witnessing the natural; Losing place; 5. Wounded borders: The arrival of the 'Barbarians'; Europe besieged by the border; New space of flows; 6. Eros and thanatos in transnational Europe

Medicine, information and body consumption: GiocondaFascination beneath the surface; The transnationalized body; Uncertain bodies; Older dramas; Postscript: Eros and thanatos re-covered; PART III: Senses revisited; 7. Touch and taste; Touch/tactility -- a backstage; Touching taste and memory -- the play; Aftertastes; 8. Border echoes; The sob; From the borders of the inside; Tactile sounds; PART IV: Sensing the invisible; 9. Divination, media and the networked body of modernity; Telepresencing theodicy; Evil eye and somatic witnessing; Shadow modernity; Divination and the involuntary body

The spellCup: a cosmological interior; The moral economy of reading and witnessing; Gendering the invisible; The social nervous system via involuntary gestures; Remediations; 10. A last word on dreaming; Intangible culture; In and out; Debts and payments; PART V: Borders of translatability; 11. On 'native' ethnography in modernity; Ethnographic translation; Import anthropology; 12. Ethnopoetic dialogues: Performing local history; 13. Performing intercultural translation; Multiculturalism and legislation; PART VI: The violence of the lettered; 14. Events of deadly rumor: By way of an epilogue

The visible invisiblePreFace; Dislocations; Defacement; Forward; Bibliography; Index

Sensing the Everyday is a multi-sited ethnographic inquiry based on fieldwork experiences and sharp everyday observations in the era of crisis. Blending sophisticated theoretical analyses with original ethnographic data, C. Nadia Seremetakis journeys from Greece to Vienna, Edinburgh, Albania, Ireland, and beyond. Social crisis is seen through its transnational multiplication of borders, thresholds and margins, divisions, and localities as linguistic, bodily, sensory, and performative sites of the quotidian in process. The book proposes everyday life not as a sanctuary or as a recessed zone distanced from the structural violence of the state and the market, but as a condition of im/possibility, unable to be lived as such, yet still an encapsulating habitus. There the impossibility of the quotidian is concretized as fragmentary and fragmenting material forces. Seremetakis weaves together topics as diverse as borders and bodies, history and death, the earth and the senses, language and affect, violence and public culture, the sociality of dreaming, and the spatialization of the traumatic, in a journey through antiphonic witnessing and memory. Her montage explores various ways of juxtaposing reality with the irreal and the imaginal to expose the fictioning of social reality. The book locates her approach to ethnography and the 'native ethnographer' in wider anthropological and philosophical debates, and proposes a dialogical interfacing of theory and practice, the translation of academic knowledge to public knowledge

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