Nicolas Argenti is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at Brunel University. He is the author of The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields (2007) and coeditor of several collections, including (with Katharina Schramm) Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (2010).

Introduction: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Nicolas Argenti

Chapter 1. Fossilized Futures: Topologies and Topographies of Crisis Experience in Central Greece
Daniel M. Knight

Chapter 2. Prayer as a History: Of Witnesses, Martyrs, and Plural Pasts in Post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
David Henig

Chapter 3. Surviving Hrant Dink: Carnal Mourning under the Specter of Senselessness
Alice von Bieberstein

Chapter 4. The Material Life of War at the Greek Border
Laurie Kain Hart

Chapter 5. (Re)sounding Histories: On the Temporalities of the Media Event
Penelope Papailias

Chapter 6. Between Dreams and Traces: Memory, Temporality, and the Production of Sainthood in Lesbos
Séverine Rey

Chapter 7. "Eyes Shut, Muted Voices": Narrating and Temporalizing the Post-Civil War Era through a Monument
Dimitra Gefou-Madianou

Chapter 8. Uncanny History: Temporal Topology in the Post-Ottoman World
Charles Stewart

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