In My Time of Dying : A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa /

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An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parker, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
Death > Africa, West > History.
Death > Africa, West > Religious aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Africa, West.
HISTORY / Africa / West.
Adinkra.
African funerals.
African history.
Akan.
Asante.
Birifu.
Eric Seeman.
Ga.
Gandah.
Ghanaian history.
Gold Coast.
Katherine Verdery.
Kumasi.
The Reaper's Garden.
Thomas Laqueur.
Vincent Brown.
angry ghosts.
burial.
burials.
cemeteries.
curation of human crania.
death duties.
dishonorable dead.
funerals.
funerary culture.
funerary.
gold.
grave good.
graveyard.
grief.
house burial.
human sacrifice.
immolation.
inheritance.
king of Gyaman.
mortuary exchange.
mortuary.
mourning.
poison.
poisonings.
sculptures of the dead.
servitude and death.
testaments.
wills.
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