TY - JOUR
T1 - When biographies cross necrographies
T2 - the exchange of ‘affinity’ in Cuba
AU - Panagiotopoulos, Anastasios
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PY - 2017/10/20
Y1 - 2017/10/20
N2 - In Cuba one might encounter a lively exchange occurring between the living and the dead (los muertos), one which is often described in terms of ‘affinity’. This involves a reciprocity among the biographies of the former, the past (biographies) and present condition (‘necrography’) of the latter, who are not in the least limited to ancestors or previously intimate to the living persons. The intensification of such exchange takes place within a dynamic and multiple field of identifications and differentiations, wherein the dead slowly become dead in a parallel process of un-becoming living, through becoming ‘affinity’ muertos of their living counterparts. This could be said to be the point of what is going on, but things, when they get so radically mobilised through exchange, might also go beyond the point of conclusion.
AB - In Cuba one might encounter a lively exchange occurring between the living and the dead (los muertos), one which is often described in terms of ‘affinity’. This involves a reciprocity among the biographies of the former, the past (biographies) and present condition (‘necrography’) of the latter, who are not in the least limited to ancestors or previously intimate to the living persons. The intensification of such exchange takes place within a dynamic and multiple field of identifications and differentiations, wherein the dead slowly become dead in a parallel process of un-becoming living, through becoming ‘affinity’ muertos of their living counterparts. This could be said to be the point of what is going on, but things, when they get so radically mobilised through exchange, might also go beyond the point of conclusion.
KW - Biography
KW - Cuba
KW - Death
KW - Divination
KW - Exchange
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84953710969&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2015.1120763
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2015.1120763
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84953710969
SN - 0014-1844
VL - 82
SP - 946
EP - 970
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
IS - 5
ER -