Colonialism’s Mortal Remains
Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Oran, Algeria’s second- largest city, I argue that some cemeteries serve as semiotic landscapes of ambivalence— places that people cannot or refuse to classify within a culturally recognized, hegemonic symbolic category of meaning. Ambivale...
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Main Author: | Stephanie Love |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
2025-04-01
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Series: | Semiotic Review |
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Online Access: | https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/article/view/50 |
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