In My Time of Dying: A History of Death and the Dead in West Africa

by John Parker and John Parker

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An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuries

In My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now present-day Ghana, John Parker explores mortuary cultures and the relationship between the living and the dead over a four-hundred-year period spanning the seventeenth to...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691193150

ISBN13:9780691193151

Release Date:March 2021

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:1.85 lbs.

Dimensions:1.5" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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History Social Science Social Sciences

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