Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, 7) - Softcover

Book 3 of 12: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
 
9781789205060: Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology, 7)

Synopsis

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.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Authors

David Lipset is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.



Eric K. Silverman is Professor of Anthropology in the American Studies and Psychology/Human Development Departments at Wheelock College.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.