Passages & afterworlds : anthropological perspectives on death in the Caribbean
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- ISBN: 1478000147
- ISBN: 9781478000143
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Physical Description:
x, 297 pages ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Maarit Forde -- Chapter 1. "The dead don't come back like the migrant comes back" : many returns in the Garifuna dügü / Paul Christopher Johnson -- Chapter 2. Of vital spirit and precarious bodies in Amerindian socialities / George Mentore -- Chapter 3. The making of ancestors in a Surinamese Maroon society / Ineke (Wilhelmina) van Wetering and Bonno (H.U.E.) Thoden van Velzen -- Chapter 4. Death and the construction of social space : land, kinship, and identity in the Jamaican mortuary cycle / Yanique Hume -- Chapter 5. Mortuary rites and social dramas in Léogâne, Haiti / Karen Richman -- 6. From Zonbi to Samdi : late transformations in Haitian eschatology / Donald Cosentino -- 7. Governing death in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde -- Chapter 8. Death and the problem of orthopraxy in Caribbean Hinduism : reconsidering the politics and poetics of Indo-Trinidadian mortuary ritual / Keith E. McNeal -- Chapter 9. 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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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | GT 3223 P37 2018 (Text) | 26040003402092 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |