Artifactual - Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Paperback)

In Artifactual, Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, activists, and artists process and reckon with civil and state violence that led to the enduring division of the island, using forensic and documentary materials to retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. Davis follows forensic archaeologists and anthropologists who attempt to locate, identify, and return to relatives the remains of Cypriots killed in those conflicts. She turns to filmmakers who use archival photographs and footage to come to terms with political violence and its legacies. In both forensic science and documentary filmmaking, the dynamics of secrecy and revelation shape how material remains such as bones and archival images are given meaning. Throughout, Davis demonstrates how Cypriots navigate the tension between an ethics of knowledge, which valorizes truth as a prerequisite for recovery and reconciliation, and the politics of knowledge, which renders evidence as irremediably partial and perpetually falsifiable.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Experimental Futures
Release date:	August 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Elizabeth Anne Davis
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1988-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	1-4780-1988-3
Barcode:	9781478019886

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