Funerals in Africa: Explorations of a Social Phenomenon 9780857452061
Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Wherea...
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Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Funerals in Africa: An Introduction

Chapter 1 African Funerals and Sociocultural Change: A Review of Momentous Transformations across a Continent

Chapter 2 A Decent Death: Changes in Funerary Rites in Bulawayo

Chapter 3 Transformations of Death among the Kikuyu of Kenya: From Hyenas to Tombs

Chapter 4 Decomposing Pollution? Corpses, Burials, and Affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya

Chapter 5 The Rise of “Death Celebrations” in the Cameroon Grassfields

Chapter 6 Funerals and Religious Pluralism in Burkina Faso

Chapter 7 Funerals and the Religious Imagination: Burying and Honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ in southern Benin

Chapter 8 Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs: Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture

Chapter 9 Funerals and Fetish Interment in Accra, Ghana

Notes on Contributors

Index

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