Water Graves

Author : Valérie Loichot
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813943809
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Graves written by Valérie Loichot and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water Graves considers representations of lives lost to water in contemporary poetry, fiction, theory, mixed-media art, video production, and underwater sculptures. From sunken slave ships to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Valérie Loichot investigates the lack of official funeral rites in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, waters that constitute both early and contemporary sites of loss for the enslaved, the migrant, the refugee, and the destitute. Unritual, or the privation of ritual, Loichot argues, is a state more absolute than desecration. Desecration implies a previous sacred observance--a temple, a grave, a ceremony. Unritual, by contrast, denies the sacred from the beginning. In coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Miami, Haiti, Martinique, Cancun, and Trinidad and Tobago, the artists and writers featured in Water Graves—an eclectic cast that includes Beyoncé, Radcliffe Bailey, Edwidge Danticat, Édouard Glissant, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jason deCaires Taylor, Édouard Duval-Carrié, Natasha Trethewey, and Kara Walker, among others—are an archipelago connected by a history of the slave trade and environmental vulnerability. In addition to figuring death by drowning in the unritual—whether in the context of the aftermath of slavery or of ecological and human-made catastrophes—their aesthetic creations serve as memorials, dirges, tombstones, and even material supports for the regrowth of life underwater.

Author : Margaret Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521865875
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Investigation of Mass Graves written by Margaret Cox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the essential processes and techniques for the scientific investigation of atrocity crimes.

Author : David J. Stewart
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063965
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sea Their Graves written by David J. Stewart and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other groups with dangerous occupations, mariners have developed a close-knit culture bound by loss and memory. Death regularly disrupts the fabric of this culture and necessitates actions designed to mend its social structure. From the ritual of burying a body at sea to the creation of memorials to honor the missing, these events tell us a great deal about how sailors see their world. Based on a study of more than 2,100 gravestones and monuments in North America and the United Kingdom erected between the seventeenth and late twentieth centuries, David Stewart expands the use of nautical archaeology into terrestrial environments. He focuses on those who make their living at sea--one of the world's oldest and most dangerous occupations--to examine their distinct folkloric traditions, beliefs, and customs regarding death, loss, and remembrance.

Author : B R Spangler
Publisher : Bookouture
ISBN 13 : 9781838882600
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saltwater Graves written by B R Spangler and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plunging under the cold ocean surface, her long blonde hair drags in the current and she frantically kicks towards the light. With her arms and legs tied she is helpless. As water fills her lungs, she has just one regret. She never told anyone about her date. On a lonely stretch of coast at daybreak in North Carolina's Outer Banks, Detective Casey White is shocked to find the drowned body of a much-loved local woman, Ann Choplin, her beautiful face covered with specks of sand. The green and white rope binding her wrists reveals the terrifying truth that this innocent mother's death was no accident. With the incoming tide flooding the scene and swallowing all evidence, Casey's team has nowhere to turn... but it's Casey who realizes this beach will be devastatingly familiar to her partner, ex-sheriff Jericho Flynn. His wife was found murdered here years ago, thrown into the ocean alive just like Ann. But the twisted and jealous woman guilty of that crime has been in prison for years. Days later, another woman is found drowned on the same beach, her wrists tied. Casey fears a copycat killer is on the loose, playing a deadly game with Jericho by digging up the horrors of his past. Certain that finding a link between these women will crack the case, Casey works through the night digging into their lives and finds an old photo of the two victims at school together, smiling in their cheerleader uniforms. But cold betrayal floods Casey as she sees Jericho in the background. She'd thought it was safe to let him into her life, but he never once mentioned he knew the victims. What other secrets is he hiding? When a coil of green and white rope is found in his garage, Casey's whole team is convinced that the mounting evidence is stacked against Jericho. But with Casey's instincts screaming that Jericho could never hurt anyone, it will mean risking her own career-and her life-to clear his name. If she's wrong, she is placing her trust in a killer... but if she's right, more innocent women are in terrible danger. An absolutely unputdownable crime thriller, with twists and turns that will leave you breathless. Fans of Robert Dugoni, Kendra Elliot and Rachel Caine will be addicted.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2152 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Author : James Robinson Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1196 pages
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Download or read book The Graves-Ditzler: Or, Great Carrollton Debate written by James Robinson Graves and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph L. Rife
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
ISBN 13 : 162139008X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains written by Joseph L. Rife and published by American School of Classical Studies at Athens. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study describes and interprets the graves and human remains of Roman and Byzantine date recovered by excavation between 1954 and 1976 in several locales around the Isthmian Sanctuary and the succeeding fortifications. This material provides important evidence for both death and life in the Greek countryside during the Late Roman to Early Byzantine periods. Examination of burial within the local settlement, comparative study of mortuary behavior, and analysis of skeletal morphology, ancient demography, oral health and paleopathology all contribute to a picture of the rural Corinthians over this transitional era as interactive, resilient and modestly innovative. Winner of the 2012-2013 CAMWS Outstanding Publication Award.

Author : Edward Westermarck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
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Download or read book Ritual and Belief in Morocco written by Edward Westermarck and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan Druett
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312334420
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Watery Grave written by Joan Druett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exonerated for a murder hours after an exploration convoy sets sail for the Pacific islands, ship linguist Wiki Coffin is made a deputy by a Virginia sheriff and sets out to catch up with his crewmates, one of whom is the real killer.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.MS/5 ( download)

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