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

Half Title -- Mortuary Dialogues -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction - Mortuary Ritual, Modern Social Theory, and the Historical Moment in Pacific Modernity -- Part 1 - Tenacious Voices -- Chapter 1 - Fearing the Dead: The Mortuary Rites of Marshall Islanders amid the Tragedy of Pacific Modernity -- Chapter 2 - Into the World of Sorrow: Women and the Work of Death in Maori Mortuary Rites -- Chapter 3 - Death and Experience in Rawa Mortuary Rites, Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 4 - The Knotted Person: Death, the Bad Breast, and Melanesian Modernity among the Murik, Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 5 - Mortuary Ritual and Mining Riches in Island Melanesia -- Part 2 - Equivocal Voices -- Chapter 6 - Finishing Kapui's Name: Birth, Death, and the Reproduction of Manam Society, Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 7 - Transformations of Male Initiation and Mortuary Rites among the Kayan of Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 8 - Mortuary Failures: Traditional Uncertainties and Modern Families in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 9 - Everything Will Come Up Like TV, Everything Will Be Revealed: Death in an Age of Uncertainty in the Purari Delta, Papua New Guinea -- Afterword - Mortuary Dialogues in Pacific Modernities and Anthropology -- Index.

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