Funeral Culture - Aids, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Casey Golomski
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780253036445
• ISBN: 978-0-253-03644-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Soziologie: Sterben und Tod, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions