Introduction: An anthropology of absence

An Anthropology of Absence: Materializations of Transcendence and Loss

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-22

  Bille, Mikkel ^a   Hastrup, Frida ^a   Sorensen, Tim Flohr ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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