Funeral Culture (eBook)

AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom

Casey Golomski (Autor)

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2018
232 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253036483 (ISBN)

Infos

Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.

Autor

Casey Golomski is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Hampshire. His work has appeared in journals such as Material Religion; Social Dynamics; Culture, Health, and Sexuality; and American Ethnologist.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Note on Transliteration

Introduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change

Chapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIV

Chapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: "Faith Without Work is Dead"

Chapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the Witch

Chapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and Cremation

Chapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts

Chapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: Memento Radicalis

Conclusion The Afterlives of Work

Appendix

I. siSwati-American English Glossary

II. List of Abbreviations

References

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 17 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: accoutrements of death • Africa • African Studies • African traditional religion • Afterlife • AIDS • Aids Epidemic • Anthropology • body politics • burial • burying the dead • Caregiving • caring for the sick • Casey Golomski • Christianity • Christianity, Pentecostalism, indigenous religion, traditional religion, African traditional religion, work, labor, livelihoods, cultural economy, Body Politics, Cremation, Funeral Feasts, Memento • Colonial • commemoration • Commemoration, colonial, postcolonial, afterlife, caregiving, life insurance, insurance salesmen, AIDS epidemic, accoutrements of death, burying the dead, caring for the sick, ethnography • cremation • Cultural Anthropology • Cultural Change • Cultural Economy • Culture • culture change • Death • Dignity Work and Cultural Change • Disease • disease, treatment, epidemic, pandemic, global health, health, well-being, wellbeing, healing, health care, healthcare, mortality, illness, death, dying, funerals, burial, rites of passage, life course, end-of-life • Dying • end-of-life • Epidemic • ethnography • ethnography of death • ethnography of death, funerary wreaths, tombstones, sickness, national disaster, medical prevention, medical treatment • Funeral Culture • Funeral Feasts • funerals • funerary wreaths • Gender • gender, culture, culture change, cultural change, African studies, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Africa, Swaziland, South Africa, kingship, royalty, monarchy, traditionalism, religion, religious studies • Global Health • Healing • Health • Healthcare • Health Care • HIV • HIV/Aids • HIV-AIDS • Illness • Indiana University Press • indigenous religion • insurance salesmen • IUP • IUP, IU Press, Indiana University Press, Funeral Culture, Casey Golomski, Dignity Work and Cultural Change, anthropology, cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, HIV, AIDS, HIV/AIDS, HIV-AIDS • IU Press • Kingship • Labor • life course • life insurance • Livelihoods • Medical Anthropology • medical prevention • medical treatment • Memento • Monarchy • Mortality • national disaster • Pandemic • Pentecostalism • Postcolonial • Religion • Religious Studies • Rites of Passage • royalty • sickness • South Africa • Southern Africa • Sub-Saharan Africa • Swaziland • tombstones • traditionalism • Traditional religion • Treatment • well-being • Wellbeing • Work
• ISBN-13: 9780253036483 / 9780253036483