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Haunting Silence

Haunting Silence

Weller, Robert P.

Paperback

AnthropologyDeath & DyingGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 19, 2027

ISBN10: 1914363590
ISBN13: 9781914363597
Publisher: Hau
Published: Feb 19 2027
Pages: 250
Language: English

Informed by the author's personal experiences and over forty years of fieldwork in China and Taiwan, this book explores how people can live with loss and memory as they echo across space and time.

From the ghost of the author's sister to the three deaths of a Chinese goddess, Haunting Silence intertwines two broad themes that address how we live with the silences of absence and loss. First, silences pose an extreme case of the difficulties of interpretation. Silences resist interpretation, yet push us to try. That is why they so often haunt. The second theme is that silences are inherent to rhythm, and therefore social life. Haunting Silence consolidates these two points. Rhythms socialize silence but cannot avoid the insurmountable problems of interpretation that it brings. If we see the beats as those moments when things take form and become meaningful, the silences that we know will follow open the possibility that those meanings will again dissolve.

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