Funeral culture : : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom / / Casey Golomski.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington, Indiana : : Indiana University Press,, [2018] 2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
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Table of 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.