03594oam 2200721 a 450 991096079900332120251117091732.01-80758-881-51-78238-129-51-283-32650-797866133265080-85745-205-310.1515/9780857452061(CKB)2550000000063000(EBL)795480(OCoLC)761845655(SSID)ssj0000536968(PQKBManifestationID)12176379(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536968(PQKBWorkID)10551839(PQKB)11409569(Au-PeEL)EBL795480(CaPaEBR)ebr10745052(CaONFJC)MIL332650(DE-B1597)636156(DE-B1597)9780857452061(Perlego)540750(MiAaPQ)EBC795480(EXLCZ)99255000000006300020110203d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFunerals in Africa explorations of a social phenomenon /edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret1st ed.New York :Berghahn Books,2011.1 online resource (244 pages)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 Benin; Chapter 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; IndexAcross 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.Funeral rites and ceremoniesAfricaDeathReligious aspectsAfricaSocial life and customsAfricaReligious life and customsFuneral rites and ceremoniesDeathReligious aspects.393/.9393.9Jindra Michael1894523Noret Joël1894524MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910960799003321Funerals in Africa4545949UNINA