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Funeral Culture
- AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom
Engelsk Paperback

Funeral Culture

- AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom
Engelsk Paperback

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Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780253036452
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0253036453
Udg. Dato:
4 jun 2018
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Indiana University Press
Oplagsdato:
4 jun 2018
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