In my time of dying: a history of death and the dead in West Africa

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Cultural Encounter -- 2 Body, Soul and Person -- 3 Speaking of Death -- 4 Grief and Mourning -- 5 Gold, Wealth and Burial -- 6 Faces of the Dead -- 7 The Severed Head -- 8 Slaves -- 9 Human Sacrifice -- 10 Pois...

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Main Author: Parker, John 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Ghana / Death / Dying / Funeral / Grief / Mourning rites / History 1600-2000
B Girard, René 1923-2015
Further subjects:B Social History / HISTORY
B Deity
B immolation
B West / Africa / HISTORY
B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
B inheritance
B Death (Africa, West) History
B Funeral rites and ceremonies (Africa, West)
B African funerals
B Akyem
B graveyard
B Accra
B In Death
B Mourner
B Deathbed
B burial
B Narrative
B funerary
B Cemetery
B Ghanaian history
B grief
B Gold Coast
B death duties
B angry ghosts
B Adinkra
B dishonorable dead
B mourning
B Africa / Generals / HISTORY
B king of Gyaman
B curation of human crania
B Funeral
B Basel Mission
B Capital Punishment
B Birifu
B funerary culture
B Death
B Akwamu
B Death & Dying / SOCIAL SCIENCE
B grave good
B Slavery
B Thomas Laqueur
B mortuary exchange
B cemeteries
B Military campaign
B Eric Seeman
B Vincent Brown
B testaments
B Katherine Verdery
B gold
B Coffin
B African history
B sculptures of the dead
B funerals
B house burial
B human sacrifice
B Asante
B wills
B burials
B mortuary
B poison
B Sociology / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Generals
B Gandah
B poisonings
B Akan
B Christianity
B Kumasi
B Abusua
B Death (Africa, West) Religious aspects
B The Reaper’s Garden
B servitude and death
B Modernity
B West Africa
B Cape Coast
B Golden Stool
B Writing
B Ga
B Indication (medicine)
B Wealth
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