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Author Golomski, Casey, author.

Title Funeral culture : AIDS, work, and cultural change in an African kingdom / Casey Golomski.

Publication Info. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: funeral culture: dignity, work, and cultural change -- Reckoning life: dying from AIDS to living with HIV -- Religious healing and resurrection: "Faith without work is dead" -- The secrets of life insurance: saving, care, and the witch -- Grounded: body politics of burial and cremation -- Life in a takeaway box: mobility and purity in funeral feasts -- Commemoration and cultural change: memento radicalis -- Conclusion: the afterlives of work.
Summary Contemporary 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 practices'newly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematorium'are 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.
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Subject Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Eswatini.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Eswatini.
Social change -- Eswatini.
Social change.
HIV infections -- Social aspects -- Eswatini.
HIV infections -- Social aspects.
HIV infections.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- Eswatini.
AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects.
AIDS (Disease)
Eswatini -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 21st century
2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Golomski, Casey. Funeral culture. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018 9780253036445 (DLC) 2018017531
ISBN 9780253036469 (electronic book)
0253036461 (electronic book)
9780253036445 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0253036445
9780253036452
0253036453