Mortuary Dialogues Andrew Whiting

Mortuary Dialogues Andrew WhitingMortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The books key concept, mortuary dialogue, describes the different genres of talk and expressive culture through which people struggle to

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