Joël Noret is Assistant Professor of anthropology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He has been conducting fieldwork in southern Benin since the beginning of the 2000s. His publications include the co-edited special issue of Gradhiva, Mémoire de l'esclavage au Bénin (with Gaetano Ciarcia, 2008), his monograph, Deuil et funérailles dans le Bénin méridional. Enterrer à tout prix (Brussels, 2010), and Mort et dynamiques sociales au Katanga (with Pierre Petit, Tervuren-Paris, 2011).

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Foreword
Jan Vansina

Introduction: Funerals in Africa. An Introduction
Michael Jindra and Joël Noret

Chapter 1. African Funerals and Sociocultural Change: A Review of Momentous Transformations across a Continent
Michael Jindra and Joël Noret

Chapter 2. A Decent Death: Changes in Burial in Bulawayo
Terence Ranger

Chapter 3. Kikuyu Transformation of Death in Kenya: From Hyenas to Tombs
Yvan Droz

Chapter 4. Decomposing Pollution? Corpses, Burials, and Affliction among the Meru of Central Kenya
Mark Lamont

Chapter 5. The Rise of Death Celebrations in the Cameroon Grassfields
Michael Jindra

Chapter 6. Funerals and Religious Pluralism in Burkina Faso
Katrin Langewiesche

Chapter 7. Funerals and the Religious Imagination: Burying and Honoring the Dead in the Celestial Church of Christ (Southern Benin)
Joël Noret

Chapter 8. Of Corpses, Clay, and Photographs: Body Imagery and Changing Technologies of Remembrance in Asante Funeral Culture
Marleen de Witte

Chapter 9. Funerals and Fetish Interment in Accra, Ghana
Jonathan Roberts

Notes on the Contributors

Bibliography

Index