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Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean

Contributor(s): Forde, Maarit (Editor), Hume, Yanique (Editor)

ISBN: 9781478000310

Publisher: Duke University Press

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Pub Date: December 14, 2018

Dewey: 306.909729

LCCN: 2018021940

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 9.20" L x 6.20" W ( 1.25 lbs) 312 pages

Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

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Description: The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and mortuary rituals across the Caribbean, showing how racial, cultural and class differences have been deployed in ritual practice and how such rituals have been governed in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean.

Review Quotes: "Passages and Afterworlds embraces a range of religious traditions that includes Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, and a variety of Afro-Caribbean syncretic faiths. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."--R. Berleant-Schiller "Choice"

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