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Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom / Casey Golomski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253036469
  • 9780253036483
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN486 .F864 2018
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Reckoning life: dying from AIDS to living with HIV -- Religious healing and resurrection: "Faith without work is dead" -- The secrets of life insurance: saving, care, and the witch -- Grounded: body politics of burial and cremation -- Life in a takeaway box: mobility and purity in funeral feasts -- Commemoration and cultural change: memento radicalis -- Conclusion: the afterlives of work.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction GN486 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1039318343

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: funeral culture: dignity, work, and cultural change -- Reckoning life: dying from AIDS to living with HIV -- Religious healing and resurrection: "Faith without work is dead" -- The secrets of life insurance: saving, care, and the witch -- Grounded: body politics of burial and cremation -- Life in a takeaway box: mobility and purity in funeral feasts -- Commemoration and cultural change: memento radicalis -- Conclusion: the afterlives of work.

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