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Title Mortuary dialogues : death ritual and the reproduction of moral community in Pacific modernities / edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology ; Volume 7
ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; Volume 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity / Eric K. Silverman and David Lipset -- Fearing the Dead : The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity / Laurence M. Carucci -- Into the World of Sorrow : Women and the Work of Death in Maori Mortuary Rites / Che Wilson and Karen Sinclair -- Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea / Doug Dalton -- The Knotted Person : Death, the Bad Breast and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea / David Lipset -- Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island Melanesia / Nicholas A. Bainton and Martha Macintyre -- Finishing Kapui's Name : Birth, Death and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea / Alexis T. von Poser -- Mortuary Failures : Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea / Eric K. Silverman -- Everything Will Come Up Like TV, Everything Will Be Revealed : Death in an Age of Uncertainty in the Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea / Joshua Bell -- Afterword. Mortuary Dialogues in Pacific Modernities and Anthropology / David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman and Eric Venbrux.
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Subject Pacific Islanders -- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Pacific Islanders.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Pacific Area.
Pacific Area.
Mourning customs -- Pacific Area.
Mourning customs.
Death -- Social aspects -- Pacific Area.
Death -- Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lipset, David, 1951- editor.
Silverman, Eric Kline, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Mortuary dialogues. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016 9781785331718 (DLC) 2015045924 (OCoLC)929590000
ISBN 9781785331725 (electronic book)
1785331728 (electronic book)
9781785331718
178533171X
Standard No. 40026238215