Mortuary dialogues : death ritual and the reproduction of moral community in Pacific modernities

Mortuary dialogues : death ritual and the reproduction of moral community in Pacific modernities /

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous tra...

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Other Authors: Lipset, David, 1951- (Editor), Silverman, Eric Kline (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Series:ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; Volume 7.
Subjects:
Pacific Islanders > Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Pacific Area.
Mourning customs > Pacific Area.
Death > Social aspects > Pacific Area.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Death > Social aspects
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Mourning customs
Pacific Area
after death.
afterlife.
anthropologist.
anthropology.
back to normal.
belief.
burial.
christianity.
colonialism.
communication.
cultural.
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david lipset.
death.
dialogue.
dying.
eric k silverman.
fear of death.
grave.
grief.
historian.
islands.
last rites.
life and death.
loss.
maori.
modern world.
morgue.
mortuary.
mourning.
pacific islands.
papua new guinea.
personhood.
religion.
ritual.
society.
sorrow.
spirit.
talk.
tribal.
tribe.
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Summary:Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book's key concept, "mortuary dialogue," describes the different genres of talk and expressive culture through which people struggle to restore individual and collective order in the aftermath of death in the contemporary Pacific.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781785331725
1785331728

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