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Informationen zum Autor Casey Golomski is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire. His work has appeared in journals such as Material Religion; Social Dynamics; Culture, Health, and Sexuality; and American Ethnologist. Klappentext 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 practices¿newly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematorium¿are 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIV Chapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead" Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the Witch Chapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and Cremation Chapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento Radicalis Conclusion The Afterlives of Work Appendix I. siSwati-American English Glossary II. List of Abbreviations References Index ...
