Death, belief and politics in Central African history /

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In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kalusa, Walima Tuesday, 1964-
Otros Autores: Vaughan, Megan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lusaka, Zambia : Lembani Trust, 2013.
Temas:
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Malawi.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Zambia.
Death > Political aspects > Africa, Central.
Christianity and politics > Africa, Central.
Nationalism > Africa, Central > Religious aspects.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Malawi.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Zambie.
Christianity and politics
Death > Political aspects
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Nationalism > Religious aspects
Sterben
Tod
Rites et cérémonies funéraires > Zambie.
Rites et cérémonies funéraires > Malawi.
Africa, Central > Religious life and customs.
Afrique centrale > Vie religieuse.
Central Africa
Malawi
Zambia
Sambia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I
  • Translating the Soul: Death and Catholicism in Northern Zambia; CHAPTER II
  • Sex, Death and Colonial Anthropologists in the Inter-War Period; CHAPTER III
  • Death, Christianity and African Miners: Contesting Indirect Rule on the ZambianCopperbelt, 1935-1962; CHAPTER IV
  • Corpses, Funerals, Imageries of Modernity and the Making of the African Elite Identity on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945-1964.
  • CHAPTER V
  • Politics of the Gravesite: Funerals, Nationalism and the Reinvention of the Cemetery on the Zambian CopperbeltCHAPTER VI
  • The Killing of Lilian Margaret Burton and Black and White Nationalisms in Northern Rhodesia(Zambia) in the 1960s; CHAPTER VII -Suicide: A Hidden History; CHAPTER VIII
  • Maternal Mortality in Malawi: Historyand Moral Responsibility; CHAPTER IX
  • Big Houses for the Dead: Burying PresidentsBanda and Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; Back cover.

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