TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bainton,Nicholas A.
AU  - Bell,Joshua A.
AU  - Carucci,Laurence Marshall
AU  - Dalton,Doug
AU  - Lipset,David
AU  - Lutkehaus,Nancy C.
AU  - Macintyre,Martha
AU  - Silverman,Eric K.
AU  - Sinclair,Karen
AU  - Venbrux,Eric
AU  - Von Poser,Alexis Th
AU  - Wilson,Che
TI  - Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities 
T2  - ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
SN  - 9781785331718
U1  - 306.90995 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Death
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Pacific Area
KW  - Funeral rites and ceremonies
KW  - Mourning customs
KW  - Pacific Islanders
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - after death
KW  - afterlife
KW  - anthropologist
KW  - anthropology
KW  - back to normal
KW  - belief
KW  - burial
KW  - christianity
KW  - colonialism
KW  - communication
KW  - cultural
KW  - culture
KW  - david lipset
KW  - death
KW  - dialogue
KW  - dying
KW  - eric k silverman
KW  - fear of death
KW  - grave
KW  - grief
KW  - historian
KW  - islands
KW  - last rites
KW  - life and death
KW  - loss
KW  - maori
KW  - modern world
KW  - morgue
KW  - mortuary
KW  - mourning
KW  - pacific islands
KW  - papua new guinea
KW  - personhood
KW  - religion
KW  - ritual
KW  - society
KW  - sorrow
KW  - spirit
KW  - talk
KW  - tribal
KW  - tribe
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Foreword: Shirley Lindenbaum --; Acknowledgements --; Map --; Introduction: Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory, and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity --; PART 1 Tenacious Voices --; 1 Fearing the Dead: The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity --; 2 Into the World of Sorrow: Women and the Work of Death in Ma¯ori Mortuary Rites --; 3 Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea --; 4 The Knotted Person: Death, the Bad Breast, and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea --; 5 Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island Melanesia --; PART 2 Equivocal Voices --; 6 Finishing Kapui’s Name: Birth, Death, and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea --; 7 Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea --; 8 Mortuary Failures: Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea --; 9 Everything Will Come Up Like TV, Everything Will Be Revealed Death in an Age of Uncertainty in the Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea --; Afterword: Mortuary Dialogues in Pacific Modernities and Anthropology --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Mortuary 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 book’s key concept, “mortuary dialogue,” describes the different genres of talk and expressive culture through which people struggle to restore individual and collective order in the aftermath of death in the contemporary Pacific
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785331725?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785331725
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781785331725/original
ER  -