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Silverman, Eric K. (redaktør)

Mortuary Dialogues e-bog

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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, &quote;mortuary dialogue,&quote; describes the different g...
E-bog 265,81 DKK
Forfattere Silverman, Eric K. (redaktør)
Udgivet 1 juni 2016
Længde 262 sider
Genrer 1M
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781785331725
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, "e;mortuary dialogue,"e; 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.