{"product_id":"passages-and-afterworlds-9781478000310","title":"Passages and Afterworlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003ePassages and Afterworlds\u003c\/i\u003e explore death and mortuary rituals across the Caribbean, showing how racial, cultural and class differences have been deployed in ritual practice and how such rituals have been governed in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePassages and Afterworlds\u003c\/i\u003e embraces a range of religious traditions that includes Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, and a variety of Afro-Caribbean syncretic faiths. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" -- R. Berleant-Schiller * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003ePassages and Afterworlds\u003c\/i\u003e, editors Yanique Hume and Maarit Forde have assembled a compelling set of essays on Caribbean deathways—mortuary ritual, memorialization, and the colonial and postcolonial management of beings alive and dead in the Greater Caribbean world. Across diverse contexts, the chapters do an excellent job of examining the ways in which communities use separations between those dead and alive to come closer together, making new life from death (including living well with the dead).\" -- Alexander Rocklin * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePassages and Afterworlds\u003c\/i\u003e deftly examines death, dying, and afterworlds in the Caribbean region. Chapters—written in accessible language and in vivid detail—evidence a deep appreciation of the region's history, a history characterized by violent encounters and exploitation. This is an extraordinary book.\" -- Stephen D. Glazier * Religion *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePassages and Afterworlds\u003c\/i\u003e is a hugely important volume to the study of life and death in the circum-Caribbean.... This volume brings together groups from the Caribbean that are rarely placed in the same collection, which provides an innovative approach to Caribbean studies....” -- Alejandro Escalante * Anthropology Book Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Maarit Forde  1\u003cbr\u003e I. Relations\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"The Dead Don't Come Back Like the Migrant Comes Back\": Many Returns in the Garifuna Dügü \/ Paul Christopher Johnson  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. Of Vital Spirit and Precarious Bodies in Amerindian Socialities \/ George Mentore  54\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Making of Ancestors in a Surinamese Maroon Society \/ Ineke (Wilhelmina) van Wetering and Bonno (H. U. E.) Thoden van Velzen  80\u003cbr\u003e 4. Death and the Construction of Social Space: Land, Kinship, and Identity in the Jamaican Mortuary Cycle \/ Yanique Hume  109\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mortuary Rights and Social Dramas in Léogâne, Haiti \/ Karen Richman  139\u003cbr\u003e II. Transformations\u003cbr\u003e 6. From Zonbi to Samdi: Late Transformations in Haitian Eschatology \/ Donald Cosentino  159\u003cbr\u003e 7. Governing Death in Trinidad and Tobago \/ Maarit Forde  176\u003cbr\u003e 8. Death and the Problem of Orthopraxy in Caribbean Hinduism: Reconsidering the Politics and Poetics of Indo-Trinidadian Mortuary Ritual \/ Keith E. McNeal  199\u003cbr\u003e 9. Chasing Death's Left Hand: Personal Encounters with Death and Its Rituals in the Caribbean \/ Richard Price  225\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Life and Postlife in Caribbean Religious Traditions \/ Aisha Khan  243\u003cbr\u003e References  261\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  283\u003cbr\u003e Index  287\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408967868759,"sku":"9781478000310","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478000310.jpg?v=1730504899","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/passages-and-afterworlds-9781478000310","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}