Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Book Overview

Presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its transformations. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789205069
• ISBN13: 9781789205060
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"