Rest in Plastic

Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community

von Isabel Bredenbröker

278 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781805395034
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2024
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books