Death and the Ancestors

A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa

Jack Goody (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

480 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-86179-4 (ISBN)

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This volume is a study of mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa, in research for this project the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and attended 25 burial services.

Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he attended 25 burial services.
First published in 1962.

Jack Goody

Part 1: General Background 1. The People and the Problem2. Approaches to the Study of Mortuary Institutions3. The Analysis of Ceremony and Rite Part 2: Death 4. The Day of Death5. The Day of Death: Mourning the Dead6. Adjustment to Loss: The Second Day7. The Burial of the Dead8. Income and Outlay9. After the Burial10. The Causes of Death11. The Bitter Funeral Beer12. From Ghost to Spirit: The Final Ceremony Part 3: Property 13. The Merry Bells: Intergenerational Transmission and its Conflicts14. Property15. Inheritance16. Succession and Inheritance Among the LoDagaa17. The Eschatology of the LoDagaa18. Diis minibus19. Conclusions

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-86179-0 / 1138861790
ISBN-13	978-1-138-86179-4 / 9781138861794
Zustand	Neuware