Rest in Plastic : Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

Rest in Plastic Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bredenbröker, Isabel, 1986- (-)
Autor Corporativo: Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The research was funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation funder (funder)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated 2024.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Material mediations ; v.14.
Materias:
Death > Social aspects > Ghana.
Ewe (African people) > Death.
Ewe (African people) > Funeral customs and rites > Ghana.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Ghana.
Plastics in burial > Ghana.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Preface: The Anthropology of Death and Anthropological Ancestors, or, What Dreams about My Grandmother Taught Me
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials
  • Part I. Place: Afterlives of Colonialism
  • 1 Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants
  • 2 Death in Peki: Sequences
  • Part II. Containment: 'Good' Death (Ku)
  • 3 To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds with Cement and Plastic
  • 4 From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints
  • Part III. Transformations: 'Bad' Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond
  • 5 'Bad' Death: Normalizing the Accident
  • 6 Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies
  • Conclusion: The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials
  • References
  • Index

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