Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities: 7 (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology)

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9781785331718: Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities: 7 (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology)
ISBN 10: 178533171X ISBN 13: 9781785331718
Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.



Eric K. Silverman is Professor of Anthropology in the American Studies and Psychology/Human Development Departments at Wheelock College.

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Publisher
Berghahn Books
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
178533171X
ISBN 13 
9781785331718
Binding
Library Binding
Edition number
1
Number of pages
262
Editor
Lipset David, Silverman Eric K.

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