Funerals in Africa
Explorations of a Social Phenomenon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19930504 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Michael Jindra (0000-0001-7267-2728), Joël Noret |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 232 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Funerals in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/9780857452054 |
| OpenAlex | W4399411989 |
| Open Library | OL25138230M |
| ISBN | 9780857452054 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness vast amounts of resources to host lavish events for multitudes of people with ramifications well beyond the event. Though officials may try to regulate them, the popularity of these events often makes such efforts fruitless, and the elites themselves spend tremendously on funerals. This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health
Political science · Migration, Identity, and Health · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Africa · Death · Death, religious aspects · Funeral rites and ceremonies · Religion · Religious aspects · Religious life and customs · Social life and customs
Pillar Tombs and the City
Burying Instability
African Funeral Ceremonies as African Humanism in Action
If you die a bad death, we give you a bad burial
Where is My Name? – Contemporary Funeral Posters as an Arena of Contestation and (Re)negotiation of Chiefly Relations Among the Ewe of Ghana and Togo
A Class of Their Own
Funeral Planning
The faith-based segregation of interments
A Functionalist Account of the Mortar-Firing Rite in the Funeral Discourse of the Anufɔ
Of Commodified Grief and Emotions
Economies of care and the politics of death among Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa
Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin
(Un)Rest in Peace
Suicide and Mortuary Beliefs and Practices of the Akan of Ghana
Death and Mourning in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan
Corporealities of violence in southern and eastern Africa
Bodies and ceremonies
Funerals against death
The Artfulness of Death in Africa
Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of Aids
Virtual Eulogies, Rituals, and Burials
Burying 'Zik of Africa
Medical Exchange on the Gold Coast during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Grave Preferences of Mourides in Senegal
Covid-19 private burial with 25 persons in the lens of the mortuary rites culture in Ghana
The case for oral histories of neoliberal Africa
Death beyond the means
The death of Adumissa
Sociologie actuelle des funérailles
Connecting global health interventions and lived experiences
Plastic stays beautiful
Death in the family revisited
Black' and 'white' death
Children are the food sent by God
Introduction
Fabrics of Identity
Money, Mobile Money and Rituals in Western Kenya
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,47 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |