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Title
Migrant hospitalities in the Mediterranean : encounters with alterity in birth and death / Vanessa Grotti, Marc Brightman, editors.
ISBN
9783030565855 (electronic bk.)
3030565858 (electronic bk.)
9783030565848
303056584X
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-56585-5 doi
Call Number
JV7590
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.8
Summary
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary practices for dead strangers, helping to illuminate the spatial and scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant reception. Vanessa Grotti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy. Marc Brightman is Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Italy.
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1. Introduction: Mediterranean Migrant Hospitalities
2. Caring for Others, Managing Migrants: Local and Institutional Hospitality in Lampedusa (Italy)
3. Guests and Hosts in an Athens Public Hospital: Hospitality as Lens for Analyzing Migrants Health Care
4. Hosting the Dead: Forensics, Ritual and the Memorialization of Migrant Human Remains in Italy
5. Ritual and Ritualism in a Contested Sea: Scalar Distortions of Space and Time.