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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 *

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements


Note on Transliteration



Introduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change


Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIV


Chapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead"


Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the Witch


Chapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and Cremation


Chapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts


Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento Radicalis


Conclusion The Afterlives of Work


Appendix


I. siSwati-American English Glossary


II. List of Abbreviations


References


Index

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 04/06/2018
      ISBN13: 9780253036445, 978-0253036445
      ISBN10: 0253036445
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      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 *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements


      Note on Transliteration



      Introduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change


      Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIV


      Chapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead"


      Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the Witch


      Chapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and Cremation


      Chapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts


      Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento Radicalis


      Conclusion The Afterlives of Work


      Appendix


      I. siSwati-American English Glossary


      II. List of Abbreviations


      References


      Index

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