Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon /: explorations of a social phenomenon. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret.
• Other Names: Jindra, Michael; Noret, Joël
• Contents: List of Illustrations Foreword ; Jan Vansina Introduction: Funerals in Africa. An Introduction; Michael Jindra and Joël Noret Chapter 1. African Funerals and Sociocultural Change: A Review of Momentous Transformations across a Continent; Michael Jindra and Joël Noret Chapter 2. A Decent Death: Changes in Burial in Bulawayo; Terence Ranger Chapter 3. Kikuyu Transformation of Death in Kenya: From Hyenas to Tombs; Yvan Droz Chapter 4. Decomposing Pollution? Corpses, Burials, and Affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya; Mark Lamont Chapter 5. The Rise of Death Celebrations in the Cameroon Grassfields; Michael Jindra Chapter 6. Funerals and Religious Pluralism in Burkina Faso; Katrin Langewiesche Chapter 7. Funerals and the Religious Imagination: Burying and Honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ (Southern Benin); Joël Noret Chapter 8. Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs: Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture; Marleen de Witte Chapter 9. Funerals and Fetish Interment in Accra, Ghana; Jonathan Roberts Notes on the Contributors; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (244 pages)
• Subjects: 393/.9; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Africa; Death -- Religious aspects; Africa -- Social life and customs; Africa -- Religious life and customs
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857452061; 0857452061
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.