مراسم خاکسپاری در آفریقا: بررسی یک پدیده اجتماعی

"Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness vast amounts of resources to host lavish events for multitudes of people with ramifications well beyond the event. Though officials may try to regulate them, the popularity of these events often makes such efforts fruitless, and the elites themselves spend tremendously on funerals. This volume brings together scholars who have conducted research on funerary events across sub-Saharan Africa. The contributions offer an in-depth understanding of the broad changes and underlying causes in African societies over the years, such as changes in religious beliefs, social structure, urbanization, and technological changes and health"--Back cover. List of Illustrations. - Foreword / Jan Vansina. - Funerals in Africa : An Introduction / Michael Jindra and Joël Noret. - ch. 1. African Funerals and Sociocultural Change : A Review of Momentous Transformations across a Continent Michael Jindra and Joël Noret. - ch. 2. A Decent Death : Changes in Burial in Bulawayo / Terence Ranger. - ch. 3. Kikuyu Transformation of Death in Kenya : From Hyenas to Tombs / Yvan Droz. - ch. 4. Decomposing Pollution? Corpses, Burials, and Affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya / Mark Lamont. - ch. 5. The Rise of Death Celebrations in the Cameroon Grassfields / Michael Jindra. - ch. 6. Funerals and Religious Pluralism in Burkina Faso / Katrin Langewiesche. - ch. 7. Funerals and the Religious Imagination : Burying and Honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ (Southern Benin) Joël Noret. - ch. 8. Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs : Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture / Marleen de Witte. - ch. 9. Funerals and Fetish Interment in Accra, Ghana / Jonathan Roberts. - Notes on Contributors. - Index Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Funerals in Africa: An Introduction Chapter 1 African Funerals and Sociocultural Change: A Review of Momentous Transformations across a Continent Chapter 2 A Decent Death: Changes in Funerary Rites in Bulawayo Chapter 3 Transformations of Death among the Kikuyu of Kenya: From Hyenas to Tombs Chapter 4 Decomposing Pollution? Corpses, Burials, and Affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya Chapter 5 The Rise of “Death Celebrations” in the Cameroon Grassfields Chapter 6 Funerals and Religious Pluralism in Burkina Faso Chapter 7 Funerals and the Religious Imagination: Burying and Honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ in southern Benin Chapter 8 Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs: Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture Chapter 9 Funerals and Fetish Interment in Accra, Ghana Notes on Contributors Index This collection is of great benefit to scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, development studies, economics, history, religious studies. REBEKAH LEE, University of London. Funerals in Africa is an excellent volume. Based on outstanding original research the collection shows how social and economic changes in Africa are illuminated through the analysis of burials, mortuary rites, mourning, and remembrance. In this collection encounters with world religions emerge as the key theme. Death and burial are therefore employed to illuminate classi