Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon
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New york ; Oxford :
Berghahn Books,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Jan Vansina
- Funerals in Africa, an introduction / Michael Jindra ; Joël Noret
- A decent death. Changes in funerary rites in Bulawayo / Terence Ranger
- Transformations of death among the Kikuyu of Kenya. From Hyenas to tombs / Yvan Droz
- Decomposing pollution? Corpses, burials, and affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya / Mark Lamont
- The rise of "death celebrations" in the Cameroon Grassfields / Michael Jindra
- Funerals and religious pluralism in Burkina Faso / Katrin Langewiesche
- Funerals and the religious imagination. Burying and honoring the dead in the Celestial Church of Christ in Southern Benin / Joël Noret
- Of corpses, clay and photographs. Body imagery and changing technologies of remembrance in Asante funeral culture / Marleen de Witte
- Funerals and fetish interment in Accra, Ghana / Jonathan Roberts.