Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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.

Pacific Islanders --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Mourning customs --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Social aspects --- after death. --- afterlife. --- anthropologist. --- anthropology. --- back to normal. --- belief. --- burial. --- christianity. --- colonialism. --- communication. --- cultural. --- culture. --- david lipset. --- death. --- dialogue. --- dying. --- eric k silverman. --- fear of death. --- grave. --- grief. --- historian. --- islands. --- last rites. --- life and death. --- loss. --- maori. --- modern world. --- morgue. --- mortuary. --- mourning. --- pacific islands. --- papua new guinea. --- personhood. --- religion. --- ritual. --- society. --- sorrow. --- spirit. --- talk. --- tribal. --- tribe.