Funerals in Africa : : Explorations of a Social Phenomenon / / ed. by Joël Noret, Michael Jindra.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Droz, Yvan,; Jindra, Michael,; Lamont, Mark,; Langewiesche, Katrin,; Noret, Joël,; Ranger, Terence,; Roberts, Jonathan,; Vansina, Jan,; Witte, Marleen de,
• HerausgeberIn: Jindra, Michael,; Noret, Joël,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)

Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harn...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of 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 Benin
• Chapter 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