Long Live the Dead: Changing Funeral Celebrations in Asante, Ghana
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Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction11Person and Death: Future Remembrance23Conflicting conceptions of death23The social person: living and dying as a career36Person, imagery, and memory392Family and Death: 'Abusua Do Funu'51The abusua52A death in the family59The abusua and the modern family71The family performed763Community and Death: Attending Funerals81The hometowm82A death in town84Alternative communities974Business and Death: The 'Funeral Industry'103The growth of the funeral industry103Services in the funeral industry107Consumption, lifestyle and identity1265Church and Death: Christian Burial133Christianity in Ghana135A Christian burial139Controlling funerals1516State and Death: Funeral Regulation158Historical background158Controlling funerals in contemporary Ghana168The national state173Odupon kesee atutu, Otumfuo Opoku Ware's burial1827Concluding Remarks: Death and the Negotiation of Culture186Glossary193Notes200References204
