INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

VOL. 8 (2015) NO. 2

Contents

(Abstracts only)

• Introduction

  3

  The IPA Editors

• Guest Editorial: On Memory and Commemoration

  5

  John O’Brien and Lorcan Byrne

• Memories and the Self in the Desert Paintings of Tassili: The Anthropology of the Past

  7

  Agnes Horvath

• From Past Conflict to Shared Future?: Commemoration, peacebuilding and the politics of Loyalism during Northern Ireland’s ‘Decade of Centenaries’

  25

  Jonathan Evershed

• Ghost Island: History, Memory and Place in Ireland

  43

  Paul O’Connor

• Flags, Parades and Commemorating the Past: Remembering & Forgetting in Northern Ireland

  63

  Kieran Keohane

• UDR Performances in Formalized Settings: Symbols, Rituals and Performances in Formalized Military Events

  77

  Stephen Herron

• Commemoration in the Civilizing Process: Reconciliation, Melancholy and Abstraction in Contemporary Memorialising

  99

  John O’Brien

• NOTES ON THE AUTHORS

  117

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