Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom /

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Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Golomski, Casey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Temas:
2000-2099
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Eswatini.
Social change > Eswatini.
HIV infections > Social aspects > Eswatini.
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Eswatini.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Eswatini.
Infections à VIH > Aspect social > Eswatini.
Sida > Aspect social > Eswatini.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
HIV infections > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Social change.
Eswatini > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Eswatini > Mœurs et coutumes > 21e siècle.
Eswatini.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: funeral culture: dignity, work, and cultural change
  • Reckoning life: dying from AIDS to living with HIV
  • Religious healing and resurrection: "Faith without work is dead"
  • The secrets of life insurance: saving, care, and the witch
  • Grounded: body politics of burial and cremation
  • Life in a takeaway box: mobility and purity in funeral feasts
  • Commemoration and cultural change: memento radicalis
  • Conclusion: the afterlives of work.

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