Format:
1 online resource (362 pages)
ISBN:
9781800103566
Content:
Innovative and challenging study that provides fresh insights on the anthropology of death and postcolonial politics.
Content:
Front Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Changing death and human corporeality across Africa and beyond -- The politics of the dead in Zimbabwe -- The power of uncertainty -- Sources and structure of the book -- 1: Liberation heritage: Bones and the politics of commemoration -- The burial of Gift Tandare -- Heritage and commemoration -- Heritage and commemoration in Zimbabwe -- Liberation heritage -- Unsettling bones -- 2: Bones and tortured bodies: Corporealities of violence and post-violence -- Resurfacing bones -- Emotive materiality, affective presence and transforming materials -- Tortured bodies -- Towards 'healing' and 'reconciliation' during the Government of National Unity 2009-2013 -- Conclusions -- 3: Chibondo: Exhumations, uncertainty and the excessivity of human materials -- The Chibondo exhumations -- Too 'fresh', 'intact', fleshy, leaky and stinky? -- The torque of materiality and the excessive potentiality of human remains -- The politics of uncertainty -- Conclusions -- 4: Political accidents: Rumours, death and the politics of uncertainty -- The death of Solomon Mujuru -- Factionalism, rivalries and murky business dealings -- The inquest -- A particular kind of death -- Conclusions -- 5: Precarious possession: Rotina Mavhunga, politics and the uncertainties of mediumship -- Rotina Mavhunga - the diesel n'anga -- Precarious occupation -- 6: Mai Melissa: Towards the alterity of spirit and the incompleteness of death -- Towards the alterity of spirit -- Conclusions -- 7: After Mugabe -- Burying Bob -- Conclusion -- Bodies and spirits, change and continuity -- AIDS, cholera, Congo, prisons, Chiadzwa, diaspora, Fast Track Land Reform, & -- Pentecostalisms -- New directions for liberation heritage -- Ambuya Nehanda returns? -- Exhuming Bob? -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847012678
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fontein, Joost The politics of the dead in Zimbabwe, 2000-2020 Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2022 ISBN 9781847012678
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1847012671
Language:
English
Keywords:
Simbabwe
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Tod
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Rezeption
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