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Informationen zum Autor David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through its set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral persons and community amid modernity, and its enormous transformations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables Foreword Shirley Lindenbaum Acknowledgements Map Introduction: Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity Eric K. Silverman and David Lipset PART I: TENACIOUS VOICES Chapter 1. Fearing the Dead: The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders' amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity Laurence M. Carucci Chapter 2. Into the World of Sorrow: Women and the Work of Death in Maori Mortuary Rites Che Wilson and Karen Sinclair Chapter 3. Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea Doug Dalton Chapter 4. The Knotted Person: Death, the Bad Breast and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea David Lipset Chapter 5. Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island Melanesia Nicholas A. Bainton and Martha Macintyre PART II: EQUIVOCAL VOICES Chapter 6. Finishing Kapui's Name: Birth, Death and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea Nancy C. Lutkehaus Chapter 7. Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea Alexis T. von Poser Chapter 8. Mortuary Failures: Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea Eric K. Silverman Chapter 9. Everything Will Come Up Like TV, Everything Will Be Revealed: Death in an Age of Uncertainty in the Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea Joshua Bell Afterword: Mortuary Dialogues in Pacific Modernities and Anthropology David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman and Eric Venbrux Index ...
