| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 384 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER I -- Translating the Soul: Death and Catholicism in Northern Zambia; CHAPTER II -- Sex, Death and Colonial Anthropologists in the Inter-War Period; CHAPTER III -- Death, Christianity and African Miners: Contesting Indirect Rule on the ZambianCopperbelt, 1935-1962; CHAPTER IV -- Corpses, Funerals, Imageries of Modernity and the Making of the African Elite Identity on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945-1964 |
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CHAPTER V -- Politics of the Gravesite: Funerals, Nationalism and the Reinvention of the Cemetery on the Zambian CopperbeltCHAPTER VI -- The Killing of Lilian Margaret Burton and Black and White Nationalisms in Northern Rhodesia(Zambia) in the 1960s; CHAPTER VII -Suicide: A Hidden History; CHAPTER VIII -- Maternal Mortality in Malawi: Historyand Moral Responsibility; CHAPTER IX -- Big Houses for the Dead: Burying PresidentsBanda and Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; Back cover |
| Summary |
In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racialised politics of death on the colonial Copperbelt, the transformation of burial practices, the histories of suicide and of maternal mortality, and the political life of the corpse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 12, 2013) |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Malawi
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Zambia
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Death -- Political aspects -- Africa, Central
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Christianity and politics -- Africa, Central
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Nationalism -- Africa, Central -- Religious aspects
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Christianity and politics
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Death -- Political aspects
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Nationalism -- Religious aspects
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Sterben
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Tod
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Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Zambie.
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Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Malawi.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, Central -- Religious life and customs
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| Subject |
Central Africa
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Malawi
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Zambia
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Malawi
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Sambia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vaughan, Megan
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| ISBN |
9789982680028 |
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9982680021 |
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9982680013 |
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9789982680011 |
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