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Table of Contents

Prologue | ix
Acknowledgments | xiii
Introduction | 1
Part I. Facing Grief
1. Living Tissue | 13
2. Imagining Disaster | 27
3. Mother’s Day | 34
Part II. Sustaining Things
4. Second Chances | 47
5. College Teaching and Culture Wars or: What Really Happened at Duke | 58
6. Elephants: A Meditation on Mortality | 71
Part III. Memory without Pain
7. Food as Anthropological Lens | 85
8. Real Estate / Unreal Estate | 98
The Stark but Familiar Allure of Empty Cities: An Epilogue | 109
Notes | 115
Index | 127

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 14/09/2021
      ISBN13: 9780823297788, 978-0823297788
      ISBN10: 0823297780

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Prologue | ix
      Acknowledgments | xiii
      Introduction | 1
      Part I. Facing Grief
      1. Living Tissue | 13
      2. Imagining Disaster | 27
      3. Mother’s Day | 34
      Part II. Sustaining Things
      4. Second Chances | 47
      5. College Teaching and Culture Wars or: What Really Happened at Duke | 58
      6. Elephants: A Meditation on Mortality | 71
      Part III. Memory without Pain
      7. Food as Anthropological Lens | 85
      8. Real Estate / Unreal Estate | 98
      The Stark but Familiar Allure of Empty Cities: An Epilogue | 109
      Notes | 115
      Index | 127

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