Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii INTRODUCTION Death – Again? Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan xi CHAPTER I Translating the Soul: Death and Catholicism in Northern Zambia Megan Vaughan 1 CHAPTER II Sex, Death and Colonial Anthropologists in the Inter-War Period Megan Vaughan 47 CHAPTER III Death, Christianity and African Miners: Contesting Indirect Rule on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935–1962 Walima T. Kalusa 89 CHAPTER IV Corpses, Funerals, Imageries of Modernity and the Making of an African Elite Identity on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1935–1964 Walima T. Kalusa 133 CHAPTER V Politics of the Gravesite: Funerals, Nationalism and the Reinvention of the Cemetery on the Zambian Copperbelt Walima T. Kalusa 165 CHAPTER VI The Killing of Lilian Margaret Burton and Black and White Nationalisms in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) in the 1960s Walima T. Kalusa 201 CHAPTER VII Suicide: A Hidden History Megan Vaughan 233 CHAPTER VIII Maternal Mortality in Malawi: History and Moral Responsibility Megan Vaughan 293 CHAPTER IX Big Houses for the Dead: Burying Presidents Banda and Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi Megan Vaughan 327 Select Bibliography 355 ...