Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFuneral 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.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
