Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon

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Hlavní autor:	Jindra, Michael (Éd.)
Další autoři:	Noret, Joël (Éd.)
Médium:	Ouvrage
Jazyk:	Anglais
Vydáno:	New york ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Témata:	Ethnologie Mort Rite funéraire Afrique Zimbabwe Kenya Cameroun Burkina Faso Bénin Ghana Kikuyu Meru Ashanti Mossi Changement culturel Changement social Funérailles Corps Cadavre Célébration Pluralisme religieux Photographie Image Image corporelle Représentation du corps Mémoire Cimetière

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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.

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