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Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

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Series: Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology, Book 7

AnthropologyDeath & Dying

ISBN10: 1789205069
ISBN13: 9781789205060
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Jul 12 2019
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book's key concept, mortuary dialogue, describes the different genres of talk and expressive culture through which people struggle to restore individual and collective order in the aftermath of death in the contemporary Pacific.

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