Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (322 p.)
ISBN:
9781805395058
Serie:
Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement 14
Inhalt:
"In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, death occupies a prominent place in the world of the living. Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment"--
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface: The Anthropology of Death and Anthropological Ancestors, or, What Dreams about My Grandmother Taught Me -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials -- Part I. Place: Afterlives of Colonialism -- 1 Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants -- 2 Death in Peki: Sequences -- Part II. Containment: 'Good' Death (Ku) -- 3 To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds with Cement and Plastic -- 4 From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints -- Part III. Transformations: 'Bad' Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond -- 5 'Bad' Death: Normalizing the Accident -- 6 Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies -- Conclusion: The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials -- References -- Index
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In English
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781805395058
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