Rest in Plastic - Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, death occupies a prominent place in the world of the living. Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.

About the author

Isabel Bredenbröker is a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher, who works for the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage and the Herman von Helmholtz- Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Product details

• Authors: Isabel Bredenbröker
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781805395034
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-503-4
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ghana, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Sociology: customs & traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies