{"product_id":"passages-and-afterworlds-anthropological-perspectives-on-death-in-the-caribbean-paperback","title":"Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaarit Forde\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eYanique Hume\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003ePassages and Afterworlds\u003c\/i\u003e explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies and the spirits of the dead, the contributors investigate the changes in cosmologies and rituals in the cultural sphere of death in relation to political developments, state violence, legislation, policing, and identity politics. Contributors address topics that range from the ever-evolving role of divinized spirits in Haiti and the contemporary mortuary practice of Indo-Trinidadians to funerary ceremonies in rural Jamaica and ancestor cults in Maroon culture in Suriname. Questions of alterity, difference, and hierarchy underlie these discussions of 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors. Donald Cosentino, Maarit Forde, Yanique Hume, Paul Christopher Johnson, Aisha Khan, Keith E. McNeal, George Mentore, Richard Price, Karen Richman, Ineke (Wilhelmina) van Wetering, Bonno (H.U.E.) Thoden van Velzen\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaarit Forde is the Head of the Department of Literary, Cultural, and Communication Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eObeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yanique Hume is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCaribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics, and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52624494264627,"sku":"9781478000143","price":63.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bWtnU2p4M1lhM2wzbThMM08yQytrQT09.webp?v=1762009064","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/passages-and-afterworlds-anthropological-perspectives-on-death-in-the-caribbean-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}