TY - BOOK ID - 117755860 TI - In my time of dying : a history of death and the dead in west africa PY - 2021 SN - 9780691214900 0691214905 0691193150 0691271356 PB - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Death KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Akan (African people) KW - Akans (African people) KW - Twi Fante (African people) KW - Ethnology KW - Fanti (African people) KW - Funerals KW - Mortuary ceremonies KW - Obsequies KW - Manners and customs KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Burial KW - Cremation KW - Cryomation KW - Dead KW - Mourning customs KW - Dying KW - End of life KW - Life KW - Terminal care KW - Terminally ill KW - Thanatology KW - History. KW - Religious aspects. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Philosophy KW - Ghana KW - Adinkra. KW - African funerals. KW - African history. KW - Akan. KW - Asante. KW - Birifu. KW - Eric Seeman. KW - Ga. KW - Gandah. KW - Ghanaian history. KW - Gold Coast. KW - Katherine Verdery. KW - Kumasi. KW - The Reaper's Garden. KW - Thomas Laqueur. KW - Vincent Brown. KW - angry ghosts. KW - burial. KW - burials. KW - cemeteries. KW - curation of human crania. KW - death duties. KW - dishonorable dead. KW - funerals. KW - funerary culture. KW - funerary. KW - gold. KW - grave good. KW - graveyard. KW - grief. KW - house burial. KW - human sacrifice. KW - immolation. KW - inheritance. KW - king of Gyaman. KW - mortuary exchange. KW - mortuary. KW - mourning. KW - poison. KW - poisonings. KW - sculptures of the dead. KW - servitude and death. KW - testaments. KW - wills. KW - Religious aspects KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:117755860 AB - 'In My Time of Dying' is a detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. ER -