In Artifactual, Elizabeth Anne Davis explores how Cypriot researchers, scientists, activists, and artists process and reckon with civil and state violence that led to the enduring division of the island, using forensic and documentary materials to retell and recontextualize conflicts between and within the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities. Davis follows forensic archaeologists and anthropologists who attempt to locate, identify, and return to relatives the remains of Cypriots killed in those conflicts. She turns to filmmakers who use archival photographs and footage to come to terms with political violence and its legacies. In both forensic science and documentary filmmaking, the dynamics of secrecy and revelation shape how material remains such as bones and archival images are given meaning. Throughout, Davis demonstrates how Cypriots navigate the tension between an ethics of knowledge, which valorizes truth as a prerequisite for recovery and reconciliation, and the politics of knowledge, which renders evidence as irremediably partial and perpetually falsifiable.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. Nobody Knows a Thing
- Introduction. Artifactual
- Conflict as Such
- Overview
- Emergence and Recursion
- Comparison and Context
- Time, Secrecy, Artifactuality
- 1. Forensic
- The Only Terrorist Is the State
- Time Machines
- Circles of Trust
- Same Old Shit
- The Politics of Bones
- History Doesn’t Belong to Us
- Keep the Door Locked
- Those Aren’t His Bones
- Very Transparent
- Why Humiliate the Dead?
- Lost Heroes of the Republic
- The Bones Become More Human as We Look at Them
- Outside of Time
- Endless
- Whether a Genocide Has Taken Place
- We All Have the Same DNA
- We All Have Darkness in Our Hearts
- Nonknowledge
- Let Me Rest
- 2. Documentary
- An Impossible Thing
- My Own Archive
- Stills
- A Brief History of Cypriot Documentary Film
- This Empty Folder
- There Is No Meta-archive
- I Didn’t Know
- A Crystal Image of Time
- More Beautiful
- What I’d Been Missing
- The Cave
- Epilogue. Our Own Ghosts
- Appendix. Archive
- Notes
- Filmography
- References
- Index
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