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

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"Why do people die and where do they go when they are dead? How should the dead be buried and mourned in order to ensure that they continue to work for the benefit of the living? How have perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life changed over the centuries? In My Time of Dying c...

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Autor principal: Parker, John, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manners and customs
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Death > Religious aspects
Death
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Africa, West.
Death > Africa, West > Religious aspects.
Death > Africa, West > History.
West Africa
Africa, West > Social life and customs.
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Cultural Encounter -- Body, Soul and Person -- Speaking of Death -- Grief and Mourning -- Gold, Wealth and Burial -- Faces of the Dead -- The Severed Head -- Slaves -- Human Sacrifice -- Poison -- Christian Encounters -- From House Burial to Cemeteries -- Ghosts and Vile Bodies -- Writing and Reading about Death -- The Colony of Medicine -- Wills and Dying Wishes -- Northern Frontiers -- Reordering the Royal Dead -- Making Modern Deathways -- Conclusion. 
520 |a "Why do people die and where do they go when they are dead? How should the dead be buried and mourned in order to ensure that they continue to work for the benefit of the living? How have perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life changed over the centuries? In My Time of Dying considers these questions from the perspective of African history. In what is the first history of death in Africa, John Parker examines mortuary culture and the ongoing relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred year period. Focusing anecdotally on West Africa but with a comparative awareness of comparable practices throughout the continent, Parker highlights how Africans developed the world's most vibrant and recognizable cultures of death"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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