Temporal Explorations in the Anthropology of Religion

Diana Espírito Santo is Associate Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Ruy Blanes is Principal Researcher at CRIA, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal.

• Foreword, Don Handelman (University of Jerusalem, Israel) Introduction, Ruy Blanes (ISCTE-IUL, CRIA, In2Past, Portugal) & Diana Espírito Santo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)1. Abducting the absence in the cave: Imaginative reminiscence of the Battle of Okinawa, Miho Ishii (University of Kyoto, Japan)2. Under the shade of Tempo, Vânia Zikan Cardoso (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)3. The ill-fated ‘return’ of the Naparama: war, spirits and anti-bullet guerrillas in Cabo Delgado, Mozambiqu, Zacarias Tsambe, (University of Mozambique, Mozambique)4. “We´re Evangelio, we don´t have to remember.” History, ethnography, and existence in the Argentine Qom/Toba religion, Pablo Wright (CONICET-University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)5. Time-tricking, the spectral, and the theatre of trauma in Chile and Angola, Ruy Blanes (ISCTE-IUL, CRIA, In2Past, Portugal) and Diana Espírito Santo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)6. Alone in the Universe: the will to live and to not will, Anastasios Panagiotopoulos (University of Seville, Spain)7. Cosmic Crisis: Bitcoin and the Future Economic Collapse, Matan Shapiro (King´s College London, UK)Hanna Skartveit (University of Bergen, Norway)8. The history channeling: Spiritual typologies, embodied biographies and technological prophecies in Spiritualist Buenos Aires, Miguel M. Algranti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)9. The Haunting of Phrakhanong: Humanity, Ghosts and Heritage in Bangkok’s Urban Frontier, Andrew Alan Johnson (Stockholm University, Sweden)10. Spirits of the past or recurrent historical figures? Challenging time frames and historiography in the mid Zambezi Valley, northern Zimbabwe, Olga Sicilia (University of Vienna, Austria)Index

The anthropology of history has become one of the discipline’s most exciting areas, and this book deserves a prominent place in current debates. Scholars drawn from around the world explore the many possible shapes and trajectories of the past, and in doing so challenge our understandings of cosmology itself.