Funeral Culture - AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom Golomski CaseyPaperback
Funeral Culture - AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom Golomski CaseyPaperback Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS…
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Funeral Culture - AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom Golomski CaseyPaperback
Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead.
This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting.