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Haunting Ruins: Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay

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Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement



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Haunting Ruins

Ethnographies of Ruination and Decay

Edited by Valentina Gamberi and Chiara Calzana

Afterword by Francisco Martinez

216 pages, 17 ills., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-885-1 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (March 2025)

eISBN 978-1-80539-886-8 eBook Not Yet Published


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“From a conceptual, argumentative and methodological point of view, the book is effective and rigorous. It is a well-developed volume which will be of interest to a wide audience.” • Giacomo Pozzi, IULM University

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Ruins, rubble and decaying material can foster a more layered theory of time, change and memory. The seven ethnographic case studies in Haunting Ruins trace human engagements with the temporal forces of ruins, which can trace the past and transform the present. Conjuring environmental humanities, the anthropology of history, memory and archaeology, this book delves into the complex influence of the past on the present and the future and urges scholars to consider ruins as things to think with.

Chiara Calzana is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turin and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is currently a member of the research team of the ERC Project ‘The World Behind a Word: An Anthropological Exploration of Fascist Practices and Meanings among European Youth (F-WORD)’.

Valentina Gamberi is a MSCA-CZ fellow at Palacký University (UPOL). Previously, she held positions as Adjunct Lecturer (University of Bologna, 2022-2023) and Research Fellow (Research Centre for Material Culture in Leiden, 2021-2022 and the Department of Ethnology of Academia Sinica, 2019-2020). Her most recent publication in English is Experiencing Materiality: Museum Perspectives (Berghahn, 2021).

Subject: Anthropology (General)Archaeology


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