States of Dispossession highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds remember, experience, and live with the remains of a violence that is still unfolding.
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Cementing the Past with the Future: The Materiality of Stone and Concrete
Chapter 2. Ruined Heritage
Chapter 3. Digging with the Cin
Chapter 4. Living as if Indebted
Chapter 5. Beneath the Wall Surrounding the Mor Gabriel Monastery
Chapter 6. Loss, Compensation, and Debt
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Zerrin Ozlem Biner teaches social anthropology at the University of Kent.