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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820924103321

Autore

Kalusa Walima T

Titolo

Death, belief and politics in Central African history / / Walima T. Kalusa, Megan Vaughan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lusaka, Zambia : , : Lembani Trust, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

9982-68-002-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Classificazione

LB 43880

Altri autori (Persone)

VaughanMegan

Disciplina

393.0967

Soggetti

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Malawi

Funeral rites and ceremonies - Zambia

Death - Political aspects - Africa, Central

Christianity and politics - Africa, Central

Nationalism - Africa, Central - Religious aspects

Africa, Central Religious life and customs

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.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Introduction : death--again? / Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan -- Translating the soul : death and Catholicism in Northern Zambia / Megan Vaughan -- Sex, death and colonial anthropologists in the inter-war period / Megan Vaughan -- Death, Christianity and African miners : contesting indirect rule on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935-2013;1962 / Walima T. Kalusa -- Corpses, funerals, imageries of modernity and the making of an African elite identity on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935-2013;1964 / Walima T. Kalusa -- Politics of the gravesite : funerals, nationalism and the reinvention of the cemetery on the Zambian Copperbelt / Walima T. Kalusa -- The killing of Lilian Margaret Burton and black and white nationalisms in northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the 1960's / Walima T. Kalusa -- Suicide : a hidden history / Megan Vaughan -- Maternal mortality in Malawi : history and moral responsibility / Megan Vaughan -- Big houses for the dead : burying Presidents Banda and Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi / Megan Vaughan -- Select bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore



themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racialised politics of death on the colonial Copperbelt, the transformation of burial practices, the histories of suicide and of maternal mortality, and the political life of the corpse.