Time after death
Material afterlives in the work of estate administration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sofia Pinedo-Padoch (0000-0002-3070-8179, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 432-449 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13591835221132187 |
| OpenAlex | W4306931661 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
When someone dies without a will and with no close family willing to administer their estate in New York City and other large US cities, the Public Administrator (PA), a small state agency, steps in to take care of the deceased's estate. Because the subject of the PA's work-the deceased-is no longer present, the office relies on things-objects, homes, money, and documents-as legal markers of identity. The afterlife of a person, therefore, is a distinctly material afterlife. Though death may signify an end, it is in fact the beginning of a different kind of time that is orchestrated in stops and starts by the work of the law, people, and material objects. The ethnographic stories told in this essay demonstrate how two temporal categories-the legal and extralegal-come up against each other in tense and uncanny ways, and how this convergence of legal and extralegal temporalities produces the distinctive material afterlives of the dead
Aesthetics · Afterlife · Agency (philosophy · Art · Estate · Ethnography · Linguistics · Literature · Object (grammar · Political science · Real estate · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Temporalities · Uncanny · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
Art And Agency
The Network Inside Out
Introduction “the Rot Remains”
Patients of the State
Documents and Bureaucracy
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next
Red Tape
A Moment's Notice
Pandora's hope
Waiting and Rejection
Atmospheric Attunements
Time-space Punctuation
The "becoming-past" of places
Dereliction at the South African Department of Home Affairs
Repositioning Documents in Social Research
Affective spaces, melancholic objects
Moral Moods
Clockpunk Anthropology and the Ruins of Modernity
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |