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| Title: | Funerals in Africa: explorations of a social phenomenon |
| Editors: | Jindra, Michael Noret, Joël  |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Pages: | 232 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | New York |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| ISBN: | 9780857452054 |
| Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Ghana Kenya Zimbabwe |
| Subjects: | funerals death rites |
| Abstract: | The scope of funerals and remembrances of the Dead, often the central life-cycle in sub-Saharan African societies, has grown more and more lavish over the years. These contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes. The contributions are: Funerals in Africa: an introduction (M. Jindra, J. Noret); African funerals and sociocultural change: a review of momentous transformations across a continent (M. Jindra, J. Noret); A decent death: changes in funerary rites in Bulawayo (Ndebele, Zimbabwe) (T. Ranger); Transformations of death among the Kikuyu of Kenya: from hyenas to tombs (Y. Droz); Decomposing pollution? Corpses, burials, and affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya (M. Lamont); The rise of 'death celebrations' in the Cameroon Grassfields (M. Jindra); Funerals and religious pluralism in Burkina Faso (comparison between the funeral of a bishop and a chief) (K. Langewiesche); Funerals and the religious imagination: burying and honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ in southern Benin (J. Noret); Of corpses, clay, and photographs: body imagery and changing technolgies of remembrance in Asante funeral culture (Ghana) (M. de Witte); and Funerals and fetish interment in Accra, Ghana (Ga) (J. Roberts). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
