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

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Lipset, David, 1951- (Editor), Silverman, Eric Kline (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Series:ASAO studies in Pacific anthropology ; Volume 7.
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Table of 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.