Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon /: explorations of a social phenomenon. (2011)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon /: explorations of a social phenomenon. (2011)
- Main Title:
- Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon
- 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:
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