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Rest in Plastic: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

Rest in Plastic: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Isabel Bredenbr?kerSeries:Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movemen #14Publish date:2024-06-01Pages:322
Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781805395034ISBN-10:1805395033UPC:9781805395034Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Death & DyingBook Topic:Cultural & Social, African StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC27ZKQFJT

In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners printed with synthetic ink on PVC, public lyings in state, cemented graves and wreaths made from plastic, death occupies a prominent place in the world of the living. Rest in Plastic gives an insight into local entanglements of death, synthetic materials and power in Ewe community. It shows how different materials and things that come to shape power relations, exist in a delicate balance between state and local governance, kin and outsiders, death and life, the invisible and the visible, movement and containment.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Berghahn BooksISBN-13:9781805395034ISBN-10:1805395033UPC:9781805395034Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Death & DyingBook Topic:Cultural & Social, African StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC27ZKQFJT

Isabel Bredenbr?ker is a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher, who works for the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage and the Herman von Helmholtz- Zentrum f?r Kulturtechnik at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin.


Publisher: Berghahn Books

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