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On the basis of a case study among the Bru of the Central Vietnamese Highlands, I examine how the recent introduction of Photoshop-manipulated photographs into the Bru ancestor cult fits with their traditional religious conceptions about pollution and oblivion. I propose three possible explanations for the entrance of these photographs into Bru culture: culture change, mimicry, and syncretism. Based on this, I raise the question of how to interpret the effects of photographs on the Bru: what do they mean or express in terms of identification with and integration and assimilation into Vietnamese society? After discussing some instances of general photo use among the resettled Bru of Ðắk Lắk, I present a case study on how the photos taken from the identity cards of a deceased man and his widow were transformed into a manipulated Bru ancestor photo in a Vietnamese-run photography shop. At the end of my paper I rephrase the question of photo manipulation in a wider context – that of the relationship between subjects and objects, i.e. human persons and the material world.

Cover Page -- Family History -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Glossary -- Chronology of the British in India -- Chapter 1: Getting Started -- Name Your Ancestors -- Geography -- Online Resources -- Visiting Archives -- Other London Archives -- Archives Elsewhere in the UK -- India -- Chapter 2: History of the British in India: the East India Company (EIC) -- Origins of the East India Company (EIC) -- High Mortality Rate -- Records of Britons Resident in India -- Chapter 3: Company Rule in India -- Governors of India -- Civil Servants -- Growth of the EIC -- Twilight Years of the East India Company -- Chapter 4: The India Office and the Raj -- 1857 Indian Mutiny -- The Raj and the India Office Records -- Changes in Social Life -- The Anglo-Indian Community -- New Occupations and Their Resources -- Later Directories -- Growth of Empire: Expansion into Africa -- Viceroys -- The Amritsar Massacre and the Rise of Indian Nationalism -- Burma -- Chapter 5: The East India Company's Armies, the Indian Army, the British Army in India and the Royal Indian Air Force -- The East India Company's Armies -- Indian Army (IA) 1858-1947 -- British Army -- First World War -- Everyday Military Life in India 1900-47 -- Second World War and the Japanese Invasion of Singapore and Burma -- Chapter 6: Merchants and Ships -- Maritime Ancestors -- Indian Navy (1830-1863) and the Royal Indian Marine/Navy (1877-1948) -- Further Sources -- British Merchant Seamen -- Royal Navy -- Records of Ships -- Merchants and Trade -- The Tea Trade -- Travel To and From India -- Chapter 7: Religion, Cemeteries and Schools -- Ecclesiastical Records -- Non-Anglican Records and Places of Worship -- Religions in India -- Conversion To and From Christianity -- Missionaries and Religious Leaders -- Cemeteries -- Schools and Orphans -- Orphan Asylums.

Like many people, my knowledge and memories of my ancestors are becoming murkier as I get older. As a child, I delighted in the narratives of my forebears and how they arrived in Australia. However, I am losing sight of my ancestor's displacement from their homelands and their journeys from Russia via Palestine in the late nineteenth century and from Russia via Tokyo and the United States in the twentieth century. I struggle to remember the sound and timbre of the voices of my grandparents and only know of the lives of my great grandparents through sepia-toned photographs. Now that my parents are no longer alive, I am not able to draw upon them to fill in the gaps of my knowledge of our family background and of relatives who left Tsarist Russia to flee pogroms and persecution. This article's exploration of my family's displacement from Russia and the Soviet Union in the nineteenth and twentieth century is inspired by the Russian writer, Maria Stepanova's examination of the role that family archives, artefacts, photographs and memories have in shaping narratives of our relatives. My family's migration story is also a memory amongst memories and, like Stepanova, I discuss photographs, artefacts, postcards and notes that comprise my family archive to make sense of the lives and the heritage of my ancestors.

Are the departed silent in their graves or do their voices influence the way we participate in politics? While in other places their voices could be less loud, it is not so in Zimbabwe. Using Terrence Ranger and Eric Hobsbawm's theory regarding invention of traditions, this study explores the deployment of ancestral voices in Zimbabwean politics as a strategy to legitimise political power and social hierarchy. In Zimbabwe, each cycle of election is characterised by constant reminder concerning the voices of the departed, reminding the voters that their democratic exercise through elections must align with the wishes of the nation's ancestors such as Nehanda, Kaguvi, Chamunika and Mwari – the national god. The study consists of three parts: the first part looks into the belief in ancestors, focusing on the ancestral hierarchical order; the second part explores how the spiritual world of the ancestors in terms of its hierarchy is reflected through the spatial arrangement at the village and household levels; and the last section looks into how Mugabe utilises the ideology concerning the ancestors to maintain political power. INTRADISCIPLINARY AND/OR INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPLICATIONS : Through use of explanatory theories in religious studies and theology, this study unpacks the complexity of theorising politics and democracy within contexts in which the spiritual (in this case, ancestors or gods) takes precedence. After dialoguing and critiquing the current and dominant theories regarding religion across the continent, the article finds Terrence Ranger and Eric Hobsbawm's theory regarding invented traditions the most plausible perspective to explain the interaction of religious canopies and political configurations in Zimbabwe. ; http://www.ve.org.za ; am2019 ; New Testament Studies

For much social, historical and medical research, a basic tool is the availability of data about the people. Malta is fortunate in the time-span and details of its records. Church records in Malta began in the sixteenth century and the government Public Registry [PR] started in 1863 so that searching for ancestors is possible. The records are complementary, but are also incomplete and frustrating. While in the past much historical research has looked at earlier times, I have assumed that the most useful period is from 1863 when the PR records give the occupation of the parties. The church records give details of consanguinity. Some useful and interesting information is provided with regards to genealogical studies in Malta. ; peer-reviewed

Introduction: Thinking through Transhumanism -- Intro.1. A back to the future approach to transhumanism -- Intro. 2. Technology, the imagination, and the future -- Intro. 3. The anthropology of transhumanism -- Intro. 4. Overview of Chapters 24 -- Intro. 5. A note on methods -- Chapter 1: Is transhumanism a revitalization movement? -- Chapter 2: Ancestors and avatars: Immortality transformed -- Chapter 3: Happily ever after: Transhumanism and the hedonistic imperative -- Chapter 4: The social skin, the anti social skin, and the pursuit of morphological freedom -- Chapter 5: Decoding the self -- Chapter 6: Rethinking kinship systems -- Chapter 7: From original affluence to posthuman abundance.