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Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom / Casey Golomski. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780253036469 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom.DDC classification:
  • 393/.93096887 23
LOC classification:
  • GN486 .G656 2018
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Contents:
Introduction. Funeral culture: dignity, work, and cultural change -- Reckoning life: dying from AIDS to living with HIV -- Religious healing and resurrection: "Faith without work is dead" -- The secrets of life insurance: saving, care, and the witch -- Grounded: body politics of burial and cremation -- Life in a takeaway box: mobility and purity in funeral feasts -- Commemoration and cultural change: memento radicalis -- Conclusion. The afterlives of work.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Funeral culture: dignity, work, and cultural change -- Reckoning life: dying from AIDS to living with HIV -- Religious healing and resurrection: "Faith without work is dead" -- The secrets of life insurance: saving, care, and the witch -- Grounded: body politics of burial and cremation -- Life in a takeaway box: mobility and purity in funeral feasts -- Commemoration and cultural change: memento radicalis -- Conclusion. The afterlives of work.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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