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1 online resource. |
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Material mediations : people and things in a world of movement ; 14 |
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Material mediations ; 14.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Death, Time and Synthetic Materials -- Part I. Place: Afterlives of Colonialism -- Chapter 1. Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants -- Chapter 2. Death in Peki: Sequences -- Part II. Containment: Good Death (Ku) -- Chapter 3. To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds in Cement and Plastic -- Chapter 4. From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints -- Part III. Transformations: Bad Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond -- Chapter 5. Bad Death: Normalizing the Accident -- Chapter 6. Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies -- Conclusion. The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Death -- Social aspects -- Ghana.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Ghana.
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Ewe (African people) -- Death.
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Ewe (African people) -- Funeral customs and rites -- Ghana.
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Plastics in burial -- Ghana.
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Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies -- Ghna.
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Éwé (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Ghna.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bredenbröker, Isabel, 1986- Rest in plastic New York : Berghahn Books, 2024 9781805395034 (DLC) 2024002802 |
| ISBN |
9781805395058 (pdf) |
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180539505X |
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9781805395041 (epub) |
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1805395041 |
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9781805395034 (hardback) |
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AU@ 000076112077 |
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