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Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community
Bredenbroeker, Isabel
Berghahn Books
06/2024
322
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9781805395034
15 a 20 dias
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List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials
Part I: Place: Afterlives of Colonialism
Chapter 1. Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants
Chapter 2. Death in Peki: Sequences
Part II: Containment: Good Death (Ku)
Chapter 3. To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds in Cement and Plastic
Chapter 4. From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints
Part III: Transformations: Bad Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond
Chapter 5. Bad Death: Normalizing the Accident
Chapter 6. Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies
Conclusion: The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials
References
Index
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials
Part I: Place: Afterlives of Colonialism
Chapter 1. Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants
Chapter 2. Death in Peki: Sequences
Part II: Containment: Good Death (Ku)
Chapter 3. To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds in Cement and Plastic
Chapter 4. From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints
Part III: Transformations: Bad Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond
Chapter 5. Bad Death: Normalizing the Accident
Chapter 6. Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies
Conclusion: The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials
References
Index
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Anthropology (General), Heritage Studies, Anthropology of Religion
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials
Part I: Place: Afterlives of Colonialism
Chapter 1. Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants
Chapter 2. Death in Peki: Sequences
Part II: Containment: Good Death (Ku)
Chapter 3. To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds in Cement and Plastic
Chapter 4. From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints
Part III: Transformations: Bad Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond
Chapter 5. Bad Death: Normalizing the Accident
Chapter 6. Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies
Conclusion: The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials
References
Index
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials
Part I: Place: Afterlives of Colonialism
Chapter 1. Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants
Chapter 2. Death in Peki: Sequences
Part II: Containment: Good Death (Ku)
Chapter 3. To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds in Cement and Plastic
Chapter 4. From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints
Part III: Transformations: Bad Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond
Chapter 5. Bad Death: Normalizing the Accident
Chapter 6. Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies
Conclusion: The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials
References
Index
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