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portada Funeral Culture: Aids, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
232
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780253036452
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Funeral Culture: Aids, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom

Casey Golomski (Author) · Indiana University Press · Paperback

Funeral Culture: Aids, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom - Casey Golomski

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Synopsis "Funeral Culture: Aids, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom "

Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practices―newly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematorium―are now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.

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