Passages and afterworlds: anthropological perspectives on death in the Caribbean
"The dead don't come back like the migrant comes back" : many returns in the Garifuna dügü / Paul Christopher Johnson -- Of vital spirit and precarious bodies in Amerindian socialities / George Mentore -- The making of ancestors in a Surinamese Maroon society / Ineke (Wilhelmina) van...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham London
Duke University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Series/Journal: | Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Karibik
/ Death
/ Mourning rites
/ Religion
/ Custom
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| Further subjects: | B
Death
Religious aspects
B Collection of essays B Funeral rites and ceremonies (Caribbean Area) History B Death Social aspects (Caribbean Area) B Caribbean Area Religious life and customs B Death Political aspects (Caribbean Area) |
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| Summary: | "The dead don't come back like the migrant comes back" : many returns in the Garifuna dügü / Paul Christopher Johnson -- Of vital spirit and precarious bodies in Amerindian socialities / George Mentore -- The making of ancestors in a Surinamese Maroon society / Ineke (Wilhelmina) van Wetering and Bonno (H. U. E.) Thoden van Velzen -- Death and the construction of social space : land, kinship, and identity in the Jamaican mortuary cycle / Yanique Hume -- Mortuary rites and social dramas in Léogâne, Haiti / Karen Richman -- From Zonbi to Samdi : late transformations in Haitian eschatology / Donald Cosentino -- Governing death in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde -- Death and the problem of orthopraxy in Caribbean Hinduism : reconsidering the politics and poetics of Indo-Trinidadian mortuary ritual / Keith McNeal -- Chasing death's left hand : personal encounters with death and its rituals in the Caribbean / Richard Price -- Aftermath: Life and postlife in Caribbean religions / Aisha Khan |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1478000317 |