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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Rest in Plastic: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

Rest in Plastic: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

Bredenbröker, Isabel

Hardcover

Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movemen, Book 14

AnthropologyDeath & DyingGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1805395033
ISBN13: 9781805395034
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jun 1 2024
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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