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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Golomski, Casey (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Eswatini.
Social change > Eswatini.
HIV infections > Social aspects > Eswatini.
AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > Eswatini.
Eswatini > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.