Rest in Plastic

Isabel Bredenbröker is a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Researcher, who works for the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage and the Herman von Helmholtz- Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements



Introduction: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials



Part I: Place: Afterlives of Colonialism



Chapter 1. Death and Power: The Nation, Indigenous Concepts and Colonial Remnants

Chapter 2. Death in Peki: Sequences



Part II: Containment: Good Death (Ku)



Chapter 3. To the Cemetery! Navigating between Worlds in Cement and Plastic

Chapter 4. From Morgue to Family Compound: Overcoming Socio-Material Constraints



Part III: Transformations: Bad Death (Ametsiava) and Beyond



Chapter 5. Bad Death: Normalizing the Accident

Chapter 6. Playing Tricks on Death: Alternative Strategies



Conclusion: The Agency of the Dead, the Agency of Synthetic Materials



References

Index