Mortuary Dialogues : : Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities / / ed. by David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Bainton, Nicholas A.,; Bell, Joshua A.,; Carucci, Laurence Marshall,; Dalton, Doug,; Lipset, David,; Lutkehaus, Nancy C.,; Macintyre, Martha,; Silverman, Eric K.,; Sinclair, Karen,; Venbrux, Eric,; Von Poser, Alexis Th.,; Wilson, Che,
• HerausgeberIn: Lipset, David,; Silverman, Eric K.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword: Shirley Lindenbaum -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction: Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory, and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity -- PART 1 Tenacious Voices -- 1 Fearing the Dead: The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity -- 2 Into the World of Sorrow: Women and the Work of Death in Ma¯ori Mortuary Rites -- 3 Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea -- 4 The Knotted Person: Death, the Bad Breast, and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea -- 5 Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island Melanesia -- PART 2 Equivocal Voices -- 6 Finishing Kapui’s Name: Birth, Death, and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea -- 7 Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea -- 8 Mortuary Failures: Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea -- 9 Everything Will Come Up Like TV, Everything Will Be Revealed Death in an Age of Uncertainty in the Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea -- Afterword: Mortuary Dialogues in Pacific Modernities and Anthropology -- Index