ISBN:
978-1- 80539-503- 4
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (278 Seiten)
DDC:
300
Keywords:
death
;
Peki
;
colonialism
;
death-related practices
;
Sozialwissenschaften
Abstract:
In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, death occupies a prominent place in the world of the living. Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.
Note:
The publication of this work was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
DOI:
10.3167/9781805395034
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/29632-8
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