ISBN:
9781785331725
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (262 p.)
Series Statement:
ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 7
DDC:
306.90995
Abstract:
Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book's key concept, "mortuary dialogue," describes the different genres of talk and expressive culture through which people struggle to restore individual and collective order in the aftermath of death in the contemporary Pacific.
DOI:
10.1515/9781785331725
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331725?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785331725
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