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Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing

Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing

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Series: Experimental Futures

AnthropologyGeneral European HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

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ISBN10: 1478017201
ISBN13: 9781478017202
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Aug 11 2023
Pages: 400
Weight: 3.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.20
Language: English
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.

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