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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493717403321

Titolo

Mortuary dialogues : death ritual and the reproduction of moral community in Pacific modernities / / edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-172-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Collana

ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

306.90995

Soggetti

Pacific Islanders - Funeral rites and ceremonies

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Pacific Area

Mourning customs - Pacific Area

Death - Social aspects - Pacific Area

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory, and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity; Part 1 - Tenacious Voices; Chapter 1 - Fearing the Dead: The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity; Chapter 2 - Into the World of Sorrow: Women and the Work of Death in Maori Mortuary Rites; Chapter 3 - Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea; Chapter 4 - The Knotted Person: Death, the Bad Breast, and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea

Chapter 5 - Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island MelanesiaPart 2 - Equivocal Voices; Chapter 6 - Finishing Kapui's Name: Birth, Death, and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea; Chapter 7 - Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea; Chapter 8 - Mortuary Failures: Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea; Chapter 9 - Everything Will Come Up Like TV, Everything Will Be



Revealed: Death in an Age of Uncertainty in the Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea

Afterword - Mortuary Dialogues in Pacific Modernities and AnthropologyIndex