Death and Dying in the History of Africa Since 1800
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7099065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebekah Lee (0000-0003-3368-3971, University of London, corresponding author), Megan Vaughan (0000-0002-0062-9605, University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 341-359 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853708003952 |
| OpenAlex | W2019426462 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 71 |
| References cited | 33 |
In this Introduction to the Special Issue on Death in African History we explore issues raised by the existing literature and suggest ways forward for future research. Death has long been a central concern of social anthropological writing on African societies, and of the extensive literature on African belief systems. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the history of death practices in Africa in relation to demographic change, urbanization, the interventions of the colonial and postcolonial state and the availability of new technologies. We explore the ways in which these forces have contributed to re-inventions of practices and beliefs surrounding death which are both self-evidently ‘modern’ and yet also rooted in a much longer history
Archaeology · Colonialism · Economic growth · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Genealogy · Relation (database · Social history (medicine · Sociology · State (computer science · Urbanization · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Medicine · Religion, Society, and Development
Custodians of Controversy
Governing the dead
Dark Matter
Governing the Dead
The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa
Religion and Health in a Covid-19 Context
Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria
Undoing Nothing
Exhuming Bodies
No Destination? Unveiling the Traces of the Future Among Young Asylum Seekers in “Waithood”
A State of (Greater) Exception? Funerals, Custom and the “War on Covid” in Rural South Africa
A discourse on aging in contemporary Ghana
A sociotheological interpretation of Genesis 50
A Stubborn Culture? Zimbabwean Migrants and the Quest for a Decent Burial during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Reincarnation, Christianity and Controversial Coffins in Northwestern Benin
(Un)Rest in Peace
Covid and Custom in Rural South Africa
Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa
A Theological Understanding of Ancestor Veneration in the Bapedi Society as an Expression of Transcendence and Anticipation of Comfort and Hope
Clash of Traditions
On the (past) verge of death
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas
Graveyards, epitaphs, and burial traditions in colonial Lagos, 1861–1960
A Mixed Methods Approach of End-of-Life Care, Social Rites, and Bereavement Outcomes
“Women … Mourn and Men Carry On”
Perceptions of community members on contextual factors driving cardiovascular disease behavioural risk in Ghana
Being tough, being healthy
Capital punishment in precolonial Africa
Funeral Culture
Symbols and Dynamics of Social Meanings
No Kagyin, No Funerals Among the Dagaaba of North-West Ghana
Bring him/her back home!” – The relevance of burying people in their ancestral homes – A South African practical theological mourning appraisal
The moral economy of violence
Design elements evoke embodiment at cultural sites in Rwanda and South Africa
History from Six‐feet Below
Death and mourning in times of Covid-19. The experience of Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa
Prolonged grief and posttraumatic growth among middle-aged and older widowed persons
Beyond the World of Commerce
A Class of Their Own
Funeral Planning
If One is A Soldier of Our Great Empire There Should Be No Discrimination
Considering ‘gender fluidity’ in Zambia
Burial of oscillating rural-urban and oscillating rural-diasporic indigenous Zimbabweans at dilapidated rural homes ( matongo )
The Balms of White Grief
Covid-19 burial guidelines in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)
Corporealities of violence in southern and eastern Africa
The ‘Waaja’ and burial rituals of Oonis’ of Ife in Southwest Nigeria
Natural burial as a land conservation tool in the US
Frontiers of belonging and politics of identity
Political Accidents in Zimbabwe
Economies of care and the politics of death among Zimbabwean returnees from South Africa
Memory, agency, and labor mobilization in the monumental funerary landscapes of southeastern Mauritania, West Africa
Virtual Eulogies, Rituals, and Burials
Interroger les Morts Pour Critiquer les Vivants, Ou Éxotisme Morbide?' Encounters with African Funerary Practices in Francophone Anthropology
Deposition of modified human remains as evidence for complex mortuary treatment in East Africa during the first millenniumAD
Returning to the world of ancestors
Death in an Ordinary Time
Citoyenneté et rituels funéraires des immigrants. Le cas de migrants congolais au Canada
Compassion technology
The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City
Urban cemeteries in Swaziland
Grief as Social Fact
It's not right
Chronicles of Death Out of Place
Introduction
Vital instability
The vitality and efficacy of human substances
Death in Slow Motion
Burying 'Zik of Africa
Death 'On the Move
Traditional African Mourning Practices Are Abridged in Response to the Aids Epidemic
The hour of Philippe Ariès
Death, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam
Nyakyusa Conventions of Burial
Parsing God
My Head Belongs to the King’
In at One Ear and out at the Other
Provisional notes on the postcolony
Death and theAsantehene
The social meanings of death from HIV/Aids
African Weak States and Commercial Alliances
African Troops in Asia
Burial and Mortuary Rites of the Nuer
A rational kind of madness
Asante
Long live Zackie, long live
Ageing and Social Policy in South Africa
Funerals and the Public Space of Sentiment in Botswana
Fertility in Southern Africa
Resource curse? governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Dignifying Death
Asante
Conversion or continuum? The spread of Islam among African women in Cape Town
Democracy in a Time of Aids
The Apocalyptic Interlude
The Political Undead
Funerals and Belonging
The Widow in Blue
The economic implications of transformations in Akan funeral rites
The production of witchcraft/witchcraft as production
The Political Economy of Death
From "Rights" to "Ritual
Reconfiguring old age
| Unique citing works | 71 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 70 |