Mortuary dialogues death ritual and the reproduction of moral community in Pacific modernities / edited by David Lipset and Eric K. Silverman.

Other author Lipset, David, 1951-
Other author Silverman, Eric Kline.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Descriptionxvi, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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SeriesASAO studies in pacific anthropology : vol. 7
Contents Introduction : Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity / Eric K. Silverman and David Lipset -- Fearing the Dead : The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity / Laurence M. Carucci -- Into the World of Sorrow : Women and the Work of Death in Maori Mortuary Rites / Che Wilson and Karen Sinclair -- Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea / Doug Dalton -- The Knotted Person : Death, the Bad Breast and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea / David Lipset -- Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island Melanesia / Nicholas A. Bainton and Martha Macintyre -- Finishing Kapui's Name : Birth, Death and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea / Nancy C. Lutkehaus -- Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea / Alexis T. von Poser -- Mortuary Failures : Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea / Eric K. Silverman -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015045924
ISBN9781785331718 (hardback : alk. paper)