Funerals in Africa : Explorations of a Social Phenomenon.

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This collection is of great benefit to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, development studies, economics, history, religious studies. REBEKAH LEE, University of London. Funerals in Africa is an excellent volume. Based on outstanding original...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jindra, Michael
Otros Autores: Noret, Joel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Temas:
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Africa.
Death > Religious aspects.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Afrique.
Mort > Aspect religieux.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Death > Religious aspects
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Manners and customs
Brauch
Tod
Wert
Kultur
Norm > Ethik
Ethnische Gruppe
Sitte
Soziokultureller Wandel
Kulturstandard
Traditionale Kultur
Africa > Social life and customs.
Africa > Religious life and customs.
Afrique > Mœurs et coutumes.
Afrique > Vie religieuse.
Africa
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Illustrations; Foreword; Funerals in Africa: An Introduction; Chapter 1
  • African Funerals and Sociocultural Change: A Review of Momentous Transformations across a Continent; Chapter 2
  • A Decent Death: Changes in Funerary Rites in Bulawayo; Chapter 3
  • Transformations of Death among the Kikuyu of Kenya: From Hyenas to Tombs; Chapter 4
  • Decomposing Pollution? Corpses, Burials, and Affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya; Chapter 5
  • The Rise of ""Death Celebrations"" in the Cameroon Grassfields; Chapter 6
  • Funerals and Religious Pluralism in Burkina Faso.
  • Chapter 7
  • Funerals and the Religious Imagination: Burying and Honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ in southern BeninChapter 8
  • Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs: Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture; Chapter 9
  • Funerals and Fetish Interment in Accra, Ghana; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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