Passages & afterworlds : anthropological perspectives on death in the Caribbean /

The contributors to this book explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies and the sp...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Forde, Maarit, 1973- (Editor), Hume, Yanique (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
Subjects:
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Caribbean Area > History.
Death > Religious aspects.
Death > Social aspects > Caribbean Area.
Death > Political aspects > Caribbean Area.
Funérailles > Rites et cérémonies > Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire.
Mort > Aspect religieux.
Mort > Aspect social > Caraïbes (Région)
Mort > Aspect politique > Caraïbes (Région)
73.57 cult, rites (ethnology)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Death > Political aspects.
Death > Social aspects.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Caribbean Area > Religious life and customs.
Caraïbes (Région) > Vie religieuse.
Caribbean Area.
Caribbean region.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The dead don't come back like the migrant comes back" : many returns in the Garifuna dügü / Paul Christopher Johnson
  • Of vital spirit and precarious bodies in Amerindian socialities / George Mentore
  • The making of ancestors in a Surinamese Maroon society / Ineke (Wilhelmina) van Wetering and Bonno (H.U.E.) Thoden van Velzen
  • Death and the construction of social space : land, kinship, and identity in the Jamaican mortuary cycle / Yanique Hume
  • Mortuary rites and social dramas in Léogâne, Haiti / Karen Richman
  • From Zonbi to Samdi : late transformations in Haitian eschatology / Donald Cosentino
  • Governing death in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde
  • Death and the problem of orthopraxy in Caribbean Hinduism : reconsidering the politics and poetics of Indo-Trinidadian mortuary ritual / Keith McNeal
  • Chasing death's left hand : personal encounters with death and its rituals in the Caribbean / Richard Price
  • Afterword: Life and postlife in Caribbean religions / Aisha Khan.

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