Maarit Forde; Yanique Hume: Passages Book sku-306145839

Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean is a hardcover in All Books under the brand Maarit Forde; Yanique Hume, SKU sku-306145839. Part of Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People, it brings together contributors who examine death and its rituals across the Caribbean. Their ethnographic approaches draw on the region's history of violent encounters, exploitation and cultural diversity. They consider relationships between living people and spirits of the dead, and how cosmologies and rituals change alongside political developments, state violence, legislation, policing and identity politics. Topics include divinized spirits in Haiti, Indo-Trinidadian mortuary practice, funerary ceremonies in rural Jamaica and ancestor cults in Suriname's Maroon culture. The discussions address alterity, difference and hierarchy, including how racial, cultural and class distinctions enter ritual practice and how colonial and postcolonial authorities have governed those rituals. Contributors are Donald Cosentino, Maarit Forde, Yanique Hume, Paul Christopher Johnson, Aisha Khan, Keith E. McNeal, George Mentore, Richard Price, Karen Richman, Ineke (Wilhelmina) van Wetering and Bonno (H.U.E.) Thoden van Velzen.You may also like Robert J Moore All Books: Conversational UX sku-168107972.