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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bredenbröker, Isabel, 1986-

niversity Frankfurt am Main and by the O, Open Access Publication Fund of Goethe U, Author.

Contributor:

Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The research was funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation, Funder.

Series:

Material mediations ; v.14.

Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement Series ; v.14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death--Social aspects--Ghana.

Death.

Ewe (African people)--Death.

Ewe (African people).

Ewe (African people)--Funeral customs and rites--Ghana.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Ghana.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Plastics in burial--Ghana.

Plastics in burial.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

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. 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.

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No detailed description available for "Rest in Plastic".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword

Preface: The Anthropology of Death and Anthropological Ancestors, or, What Dreams about My Grandmother Taught Me

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials

Part I. Place: Afterlives of Colonialism

1 Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants

2 Death in Peki: Sequences

Part II. Containment: 'Good' Death (Ku)

3 To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds with Cement and Plastic

4 From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints

Part III. Transformations: 'Bad' Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond

5 'Bad' Death: Normalizing the Accident

6 Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies

Conclusion: The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials

References

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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ISBN:

9781805395041

1805395041

9781805395058

180539505X

OCLC:

1422877652