Chapter 1 Introduction: Sociology from the Gut

Chapter 2 A Catastrophe for Identity and Meaning: Forced Disappearance, Modernity, and Civilization

Chapter 4 Moral Techniques: Recovering Disappeared Identities through Forensic Anthropology

Chapter 5 The Meaning-Preserving Machinery of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

Chapter 6 Art and Science Struggling with the Absence of Meaning

Chapter 7 Noisy Silences: The Testimonial Work of the Former Detained-Disappeared

Chapter 8 Serious Parodies: “Children of” Inhabiting (More or Less Joyfully) the Absence

Chapter 9 Transnationalization of the Detained-Disappeared, Social Creativity, and Other Unintended Consequences of Forced Disappearance