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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kalusa, Walima Tuesday, 1964- (Autor), Vaughan, Megan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lusaka, Zambia : Lembani Trust, 2013.
Temas:
Death > Political aspects > Africa, Central.
Nationalism > Africa, Central > Religious aspects.
Christianity and politics > Africa, Central.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Zambia.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Malawi.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Zambie.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Malawi.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Christianity and politics
Death > Political aspects
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Nationalism > Religious aspects
Africa, Central > Religious life and customs.
Afrique centrale > Vie religieuse.
Central Africa
Malawi
Zambia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction : death
  • again? / Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan
  • Translating the soul : death and Catholicism in Northern Zambia / Megan Vaughan
  • Sex, death and colonial anthropologists in the inter-war period / Megan Vaughan
  • Death, Christianity and African miners : contesting indirect rule on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935-2013;1962 / Walima T. Kalusa
  • Corpses, funerals, imageries of modernity and the making of an African elite identity on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935-2013;1964 / Walima T. Kalusa
  • Politics of the gravesite : funerals, nationalism and the reinvention of the cemetery on the Zambian Copperbelt / Walima T. Kalusa
  • The killing of Lilian Margaret Burton and black and white nationalisms in northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the 1960s / Walima T. Kalusa
  • Suicide : a hidden history / Megan Vaughan
  • Maternal mortality in Malawi : history and moral responsibility / Megan Vaughan
  • Big houses for the dead : burying Presidents Banda and Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi / Megan Vaughan
  • Select bibliography.

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