Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil Willis Graham Denyer
Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil Willis Graham Denyer Every year at least 20,000 people go missing in So Paulo, Brazil. Keep the Bones Alive explores this…
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Keep the Bones Alive: Missing People and the Search for Life in Brazil Willis Graham Denyer
Every year at least 20,000 people go missing in So Paulo, Brazil. Keep the Bones Alive explores this phenomenon and why there is little concern for those who vanish. Many will be found, sometimes in mundane mass graves, but thousands will not.
By accompanying the bereaved as they confront an indifferent state and a suspicious society and search for loved ones against all odds, this gripping book reveals where missing bodies go and the reasons why people can disappear without being pursued. Ethnographer Graham Denyer Willis works beside family members, state workers, and gravediggers to examine the rationalization behind why bodies are missing in space--from cemeteries, the criminal coroner's office, prisons, and elsewhere. Recognizing that disappearance has long been central to Brazil's everyday political order, this humanistic account of the silences surrounding disappearance