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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bainton, Nicholas A
• Bell, Joshua A
• Carucci, Laurence Marshall
• Dalton, Doug
• Lipset, David
• Lipset, David[Herausgeber]
• Lutkehaus, Nancy C
• Macintyre, Martha
• Silverman, Eric K
• Silverman, Eric K[Herausgeber]
• Sinclair, Karen
• Venbrux, Eric
• Von Poser, Alexis Th
• Wilson, Che

Titel

Mortuary Dialogues : Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Ist Teil von

• ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology : 7

Ort / Verlag

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2016]

Link zum Volltext

• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)
• De Gruyter E-Books EBA bis 31.12.2026 (ZDB-23-DGG-eba)

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• Cover

Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book’s key concept, “mortuary dialogue,” describes the different genres of talk and expressive culture through which people struggle to restore individual and collective order in the aftermath of death in the contemporary Pacific