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Cover: 9781782381280 | Funerals in Africa | Explorations of a Social Phenomenon | Joel Noret

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Beschreibung

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 volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health.

Über den Autor

Joël Noret is Assistant Professor of anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He has been conducting fieldwork in southern Benin since the beginning of the 2000s. His publications include the co-edited special issue of Gradhiva, Mémoire de l'esclavage au Bénin (with Gaetano Ciarcia, 2008), his monograph, Deuil et funérailles dans le Bénin méridional. Enterrer à tout prix (Brussels, 2010), and Mort et dynamiques sociales au Katanga (with Pierre Petit, Tervuren-Paris, 2011).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Foreword
Jan Vansina

Introduction: Funerals in Africa. An Introduction
Michael Jindra and Joël Noret

Chapter 1. African Funerals and Sociocultural Change: A Review of Momentous Transformations across a Continent
Michael Jindra and Joël Noret

Chapter 2. A Decent Death: Changes in Burial in Bulawayo
Terence Ranger

Chapter 3. Kikuyu Transformation of Death in Kenya: From Hyenas to Tombs
Yvan Droz

Chapter 4. Decomposing Pollution? Corpses, Burials, and Affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya
Mark Lamont

Chapter 5. The Rise of Death Celebrations in the Cameroon Grassfields
Michael Jindra

Chapter 6. Funerals and Religious Pluralism in Burkina Faso
Katrin Langewiesche

Chapter 7. Funerals and the Religious Imagination: Burying and Honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ (Southern Benin)
Joël Noret

Chapter 8. Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs: Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture
Marleen de Witte

Chapter 9. Funerals and Fetish Interment in Accra, Ghana
Jonathan Roberts

Notes on the Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	246
ISBN-13:	9781782381280
ISBN-10:	1782381287
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Noret, Joël
Hersteller:	Berghahn Books
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Joël Noret
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.06.2013
Gewicht:	0,362 kg

preigu-id: 105927336