Funerals in Africa : Explorations of a Social Phenomenon.
This collection is of great benefit to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, development studies, economics, history, religious studies. REBEKAH LEE, University of London. Funerals in Africa is an excellent volume. Based on outstanding original...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2011.
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| Summary: | This collection is of great benefit to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, development studies, economics, history, religious studies. REBEKAH LEE, University of London. Funerals in Africa is an excellent volume. Based on outstanding original research the collection shows how social and economic changes in Africa are illuminated through the analysis of burials, mortuary rites, mourning, and remembrance. In this collection encounters with world religions emerge as the key theme. Death and burial are therefore employed to illuminate classi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857452061 0857452061 1782381295 9781782381297 1283326507 9781283326506 9786613326508 661332650X |