Rest in Plastic
Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community
Author(s)
Bredenbröker, Isabel
Collection
DFG Open Access Publication FundingLanguage
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Anthropology (General); Heritage Studies; Anthropology of ReligionDOI
10.3167/9781805395034ISBN
278, 9781805395058Publisher
Berghahn BooksPublisher website
https://berghahnbooks.com/Publication date and place
2024Grantor
Classification
Social and cultural anthropology
Cultural studies: customs and traditions
Sociology: death and dying