Death on the move managing narratives, silences and constraints in a trans-national perspective / edited by Philip J. Havik, José Mapril and Clara Saraiva.

Other author Havik, Philip J.
Other author Mapril, José.
Other author Saraiva, Clara.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
Descriptionxxiii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Contents Introduction / Philip J. Havik, José Mapril and Clara Saraiva -- Part I. Death : theories in motion. Death and what comes after : immobilising the dead and migration / Maurice Bloch ; Missing bodies and belonging in Manjaco : or the past and future of some funeral customs in the context of cosmopolitanism / Eric Gable ; Death that moves : a theoretical approach to death and the possible implications in transnational settings / Anastasios Panagiotopoulos ; Part II. Transnational circulation of bodies, spirits and rituals. "Fallen leaves return to their roots" : the invisibility of death and the idea of 'Home' in the burial politics of Chinese migration / Irene Rodrigues ; Diversities within cemeteries : the otherness in the expressions of the funerary heritage in Spain / Sol Tarrés, Ariadna Solé and Jordi Moreras ; Person, death and gender between Lisbon and Dhaka / José Mapril -- Part III. Migration, morbidity, mortality and public health. Transnational death survey : a focus on death related attitudes / Violeta Alarcão, Elisa Lopes, Filipe Leão Miranda and Sofia Ribeiro ; Health services and attitudes towards end of life care and death : a multi-ethnic, cross-sectional survey / Sónia Dias, Ana Gama, Ana Tavares and Violeta Alarcão ; Mental health, morbidity and mortality of African immigrant communities in Portugal : implications for primary care / Philip J. Havik -- Part IV. "Placing the dead" and the locations of death. A few lost boxes on the highway : on the move with friendship, death and national cultures / António Medeiros ; "Waiting for the reunion" : death, dying, cremation and Cape Verdean notions of belonging in Greater Lisbon / Max Ruben Ramos ; "They won't go there with flowers" : non-evident deaths in migration / Ottavia Salvador ; Moving the dead and building the nation : martyrs in Timor-Leste / Susana de Matos Viegas and Rui Graça Feijó -- Afterword / Cristiana Bastos.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9781527507579
ISBN1527507572