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.
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.
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.
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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
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
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