Casey Golomski

Funeral Culture

AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom

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Produktbeschreibung

This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780253036445
• ISBN-10: 0253036445
• Artikelnr.: 52959706

Autorenporträt

Casey Golomski is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire. His work has appeared in journals such as Material Religion ; Social Dynamics; Culture, Health, and Sexuality; and American Ethnologist.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on Transliteration
Introduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change
Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIV
Chapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead"
Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the Witch
Chapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and Cremation
Chapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts
Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento Radicalis
Conclusion The Afterlives of Work
Appendix
I. siSwati-American English Glossary
II. List of Abbreviations
References
Index