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Author Golomski, Casey, author.

Title Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom / Casey Golomski.

Publication Info. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
2018

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Description 1 online resource (234 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction. Funeral culture: dignity, work, and cultural change -- Reckoning life: dying from AIDS to living with HIV -- Religious healing and resurrection: "Faith without work is dead" -- The secrets of life insurance: saving, care, and the witch -- Grounded: body politics of burial and cremation -- Life in a takeaway box: mobility and purity in funeral feasts -- Commemoration and cultural change: memento radicalis -- Conclusion. The afterlives of work.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Swaziland.
Social change -- Swaziland.
HIV infections -- Social aspects -- Swaziland.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Swaziland.
Swaziland -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Golomski, Casey. Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, c2018 234 pages 9780253036445 (DLC) 2018026004
ISBN 9780253036445
9780253036452
9780253036469 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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