{"product_id":"funeral-culture-aids-work-and-cultural-change-in-an-african-kingdom-hardback-9780253036445","title":"Funeral Culture; AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom (Hardback) 9780253036445","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFuneral Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCasey Golomski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253036445\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 June 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 17 b\u0026amp;w illus. - 17 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFuneral Culture\u003c\/em\u003e offers a detailed ethnography of funerals in South African Swaziland, and scholars and students alike can breathe fresh air with this comparison of the neo-funeral cultural changes amongst the Southern African countries.\u003c\/p\u003e (Reading Religion)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV\/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote on Transliteration\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction Funeral Culture: Dignity, Work, and Cultural Change \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Reckoning Life: Dying from AIDS to Living with HIV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Religious Healing and Resurrection: \"Faith Without Work is Dead\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 The Secrets of Life Insurance: Savings, Care, and the Witch\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 Grounded: Body Politics of Burial and Cremation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Life in a Takeaway Box: Mobility and Purity in Funeral Feasts \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 Commemoration and Cultural Change: \u003ci\u003eMemento Radicalis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion The Afterlives of Work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. siSwati-American English Glossary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. List of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525143359768,"sku":"9780253036445","price":52.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/funeral-culture-aids-work-and-cultural-change-in-an-african-kingdom-hardback-9780253036445","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}