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Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil
Every year at least 20,000 people go missing in São Paulo, Brazil. Many will be found, sometimes in mundane mass graves, but thousands will not. Keep the Bones Alive explores this phenomenon and why there is little concern for those who vanish. Ethnographer Graham Denyer Willis works beside family members, state workers, and gravediggers to examine the rationalization behind why bodies are missing in space--from cemeteries, the criminal coroner's office, prisons, and elsewhere. By accompanying the bereaved as they confront an indifferent state and a suspicious society and search for loved ones against all odds, this gripping book reveals where missing bodies go and the reasons why people can disappear without being pursued. Recognizing that disappearance has long been central to Brazil's everyday political order, this humanistic account of the silences surrounding disappearance shows why a demand for a politics of life is needed now more than ever.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Jul 26th, 2022
- Pages: 230
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.80in - 0.60in - 0.10lb
- EAN: 9780520388529
- Categories: • Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Latin America - South America• World - Caribbean & Latin American
About the Author
Graham Denyer Willis is Associate Professor in Development Studies and Latin American Studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Queens' College.
Praise for this book
". . . Keep the Bones Alive is a conceptually strong and timely contribution to understanding how violence, selective indifference, and dehumanizing racism are knit together in everyday life in Brazil. . . . This book also makes a poignant contribution to comprehending how hopes for a dignified life emerge from that same social fabric."-- "American Ethnologist"
"Denyer Willis's Keep the Bones Alive makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary disappearances in Latin America."-- "The Latin Americanist"