Mortuary Dialogues

Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-171-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipset, David

Silverman, Eric K.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword

Shirley Lindenbaum

Acknowledgements

Map

Introduction: Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity

Eric K. Silverman and David Lipset

PART I: TENACIOUS VOICES

Chapter 1. Fearing the Dead: The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders’ amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity

Laurence M. Carucci

Chapter 2. Into the World of Sorrow: Women and the Work of Death in Maori Mortuary Rites

Che Wilson and Karen Sinclair

Chapter 3. Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea

Doug Dalton

Chapter 4. The Knotted Person: Death, the Bad Breast and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea

David Lipset

Chapter 5. Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island Melanesia

Nicholas A. Bainton and Martha Macintyre

PART II: EQUIVOCAL VOICES

Chapter 6. Finishing Kapui's Name: Birth, Death and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea

Nancy C. Lutkehaus

Chapter 7.Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea

Alexis T. von Poser

Chapter 8. Mortuary Failures: Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

Eric K. Silverman

Chapter 9. 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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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

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

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