Description:
Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.
Brief description:
Isabel Bredenbröker is a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher, who works for the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage and the Herman von Helmholtz- Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Review Quotes:
"It uses well-suited theory and methodology to produce novel and important insights." - Ing-Marie Back Danielsson, Lund University
"The book is well documented, with a wide range of earlier work discussed ... the insights drawn from this work are well integrated with the ethnographic chapters." - Robert Parkin, University of Oxford