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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Table of 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.