ISBN:
9780691214900
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (376 p.)
,
16 b/w illus. 2 maps
Ausgabe:
2021
DDC:
306.90966
Schlagwort(e):
Death History
;
Death Religious aspects
;
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
HISTORY / Africa / West
;
Adinkra
;
African funerals
;
African history
;
Akan
;
Asante
;
Birifu
;
Eric Seeman
;
Ga
;
Gandah
;
Ghanaian history
;
Gold Coast
;
Katherine Verdery
;
Kumasi
;
The Reaper’s Garden
;
Thomas Laqueur
;
Vincent Brown
;
angry ghosts
;
burial
;
burials
;
cemeteries
;
curation of human crania
;
death duties
;
dishonorable dead
;
funerals
;
funerary culture
;
funerary
;
gold
;
grave good
;
graveyard
;
grief
;
house burial
;
human sacrifice
;
immolation
;
inheritance
;
king of Gyaman
;
mortuary exchange
;
mortuary
;
mourning
;
poison
;
poisonings
;
sculptures of the dead
;
servitude and death
;
testaments
;
wills
Kurzfassung:
An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Parker considers many questions from the African historical perspective, including why people die and where they go after death, how the dead are buried and mourned to ensure they continue to work for the benefit of the living, and how perceptions and experiences of death and the ends of life have changed over time.From exuberant funeral celebrations encountered by seventeenth-century observers to the brilliantly conceived designer coffins of the late twentieth century, Parker shows that the peoples of Ghana have developed one of the world’s most vibrant cultures of death. He explores the unfolding background of that culture through a diverse range of issues, such as the symbolic power of mortal remains and the dominion of hallowed ancestors, as well as the problem of bad deaths, vile bodies, and vengeful ghosts. Parker reconstructs a vast timeline of death and the dead, beginning with the era of the slave trade through to the coming of Christianity and colonial rule and on to the rise of the modern postcolonial nation.With an array of written and oral sources, In My Time of Dying richly adds to an understanding of how the dead continue to weigh on the shoulders of the living.
Anmerkung:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mrz 2021)
DOI:
10.1515/9780691214900
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214900
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691214900
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