Funeral Culture

AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom

AvCasey Golomski

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Indiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Indiana University Press
ISBN:9780253036452

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

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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.

Recensioner i media

Funeral Culture offers a detailed ethnography of funerals in South African Swaziland, and scholars and students alike can breathe fresh air with this comparison of the neo-funeral cultural changes amongst the Southern African countries.(Reading Religion)

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIVChapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead"Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the WitchChapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and CremationChapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento RadicalisConclusion The Afterlives of WorkAppendixI. siSwati-American English GlossaryII. List of AbbreviationsReferencesIndex