Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom /
Golomski, Casey,
Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom / Casey Golomski. - Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages)
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.
9780253036469 9780253036483
2018026004
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Eswatini.
Social change--Eswatini.
HIV infections--Social aspects--Eswatini.
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Eswatini.
Electronic Books.
GN486 / .F864 2018
Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom / Casey Golomski. - Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages)
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.
9780253036469 9780253036483
2018026004
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Eswatini.
Social change--Eswatini.
HIV infections--Social aspects--Eswatini.
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Eswatini.
Electronic Books.
GN486 / .F864 2018