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Passages & afterworlds : anthropological perspectives on death in the Caribbean

Title
Passages & afterworlds : anthropological perspectives on death in the Caribbean / Maarit Forde & Yanique Hume, editors.
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Forde, Maarit, 1973-
  • Hume, Yanique
Description
x, 297 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
The contributors to this book explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies and the spirits of the dead, the contributors investigate the changes in cosmologies and rituals in the cultural sphere of death in relation to political developments, state violence, legislation, policing, and identity politics. contributors address topics that range from the ever-evolving role of divinized spirits in Haiti and the contemporary mortuary practice of Indo-Trinidadians to funerary ceremonies in rural Jamaica and ancestor cults in Maroon culture in Suriname. Questions of alterity, difference, and hierarchy underlie these discussions of how racial, cultural, and class differences have been deployed in ritual practice and how such rituals have been governed in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean.
Series Statement
Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Uniform Title
Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
Alternative Title
Passages and afterworlds
Subject
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies > Caribbean Area > History
  • Death > Religious aspects
  • Death > Social aspects > Caribbean Area
  • Death > Political aspects > Caribbean Area
  • Death > Political aspects
  • Death > Social aspects
  • Funeral rites and ceremonies
  • Caribbean Area > Religious life and customs
  • Caribbean Area
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 / K aren 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.
Call Number
Sc E 19-382
ISBN
  • 9781478000310
  • 1478000317
  • 9781478000143
  • 1478000147
  • 9781478002130 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2018021940
OCLC
1039210511
Title
Passages & afterworlds : anthropological perspectives on death in the Caribbean / Maarit Forde & Yanique Hume, editors.
Publisher
Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Forde, Maarit, 1973- editor.
Hume, Yanique, editor.
Research Call Number
Sc E 19-382
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