03438nam 2200649 a 450 991045766760332120200520144314.01-78238-129-51-283-32650-797866133265080-85745-205-3(CKB)2550000000063000(EBL)795480(OCoLC)761845655(SSID)ssj0000536968(PQKBManifestationID)12176379(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536968(PQKBWorkID)10551839(PQKB)11409569(MiAaPQ)EBC795480(Au-PeEL)EBL795480(CaPaEBR)ebr10745052(CaONFJC)MIL332650(EXLCZ)99255000000006300020110203d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFunerals in Africa[electronic resource] explorations of a social phenomenon /edited by Michael Jindra and Joël NoretNew York Berghahn Books20111 online resource (244 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-128-7 0-85745-206-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Funerals in Africa: An Introduction; Chapter 1 - African Funerals and Sociocultural Change: A Review of Momentous Transformations across a Continent; Chapter 2 - A Decent Death: Changes in Funerary Rites in Bulawayo; Chapter 3 - Transformations of Death among the Kikuyu of Kenya: From Hyenas to Tombs; Chapter 4 - Decomposing Pollution? Corpses, Burials, and Affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya; Chapter 5 - The Rise of ""Death Celebrations"" in the Cameroon Grassfields; Chapter 6 - Funerals and Religious Pluralism in Burkina FasoChapter 7 - Funerals and the Religious Imagination: Burying and Honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ in southern BeninChapter 8 - Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs: Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture; Chapter 9 - Funerals and Fetish Interment in Accra, Ghana; Notes on Contributors; Index Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness vast amounts of resources to host lavish events for multitudes of people with ramifications well beyond the event. Though officials may try to regulate them, the popularity of these events often makes such efforts fruitless, and the elites themselves spend tremendously on funerals. This volumFuneral rites and ceremoniesAfricaDeathReligious aspectsAfricaSocial life and customsAfricaReligious life and customsElectronic books.Funeral rites and ceremoniesDeathReligious aspects.393/.9Jindra Michael994222Noret Joël994223MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457667603321Funerals in Africa2276955UNINA