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Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom / Casey Golomski.
Penn Museum Library GN486 .G64 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Golomski, Casey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Eswatini.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Eswatini.
- Social change--Eswatini.
- Social change.
- HIV infections--Social aspects--Eswatini.
- HIV infections.
- HIV infections--Social aspects.
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Eswatini.
- AIDS (Disease).
- AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.
- Eswatini--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction. Funeral culture : dignity, work, and cultural change
- Reckoning life : dying from AIDS to living with HIV
- Religious healing and resurrection : "faith without work is dead"
- The secrets of life insurance : saving, care, and the witch
- Grounded : body politics of burial and cremation
- Life in a takeaway box : mobility and purity in funeral feasts
- Commemoration and cultural change : memento radicalis
- Conclusion. The afterlives of work.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Golomski, Casey, author. Funeral culture
- ISBN:
- 9780253036445
- 0253036445
- 9780253036452
- 0253036453
- OCLC:
- 1015241029
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