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Funerals in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorations of a social phenomenon / / edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret
| Funerals in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorations of a social phenomenon / / edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina | 393/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
JindraMichael
NoretJoël |
| Soggetto topico |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Africa
Death - Religious aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-78238-129-5
1-283-32650-7 9786613326508 0-85745-205-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Faso
Chapter 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457667603321 |
| New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Funerals in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorations of a social phenomenon / / edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret
| Funerals in Africa [[electronic resource] ] : explorations of a social phenomenon / / edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina | 393/.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
JindraMichael
NoretJoël |
| Soggetto topico |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Africa
Death - Religious aspects |
| ISBN |
1-78238-129-5
1-283-32650-7 9786613326508 0-85745-205-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Faso
Chapter 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781840203321 |
| New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon / / edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret
| Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon / / edited by Michael Jindra and Joël Noret |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (244 pages) |
| Disciplina |
393/.9
393.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
JindraMichael
NoretJoël |
| Soggetto topico |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Africa
Death - Religious aspects |
| ISBN |
1-78238-129-5
1-283-32650-7 9786613326508 0-85745-205-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Faso
Chapter 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818553103321 |
| New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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