| Description |
1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Series |
LSE International Studies |
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LSE international studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Death Out of Place -- Migrants, Minorities, and the Foreigners Within -- An Ethnography of Transnational Deathways -- The Politics of Dead Bodies and Everyday Necropolitics -- The Man in Pennsylvania -- Overview of Chapters -- 1 Islamic Funeral Funds and the Moral Economy of Repatriation -- 1.1 Burial Societies, Risk Management, and Transnational Funerals -- 1.2 "Out of a Longing for Their Homeland" |
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1.3 "We Make Sure that the Bodies Get to Turkey" -- 2 Muslim Undertakers and the Bureaucracy of Death -- 2.1 The Dismal Trade? -- 2.2 The Bureaucracy of Death -- 2.3 "This Is Not an Anatolian Village" -- 2.4 "You're a Muslim?" -- 3 Memory and Identity in Diaspora Cemeteries -- 3.1 Berlin's Islamic Deathscapes -- 3.2 Writing the Dead I: Quranic Verse and Islamic Text -- 3.3 Writing the Dead II: Genealogies, Biographies, and Commemorative Culture -- 3.4 Seeing the Dead I: Flags, Photos, Moons, and Stars -- 3.5 Seeing the Dead II: Mosques and Minarets -- 4 Burial and Belonging -- 4.1 Islamic Funerary Tradition and the Laws of the Dead in Germany -- 4.2 A Home after Death? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Dying Abroad offers a sophisticated ethnographic account of how immigrant and minoritized communities navigate end-of-life decisions in countries where they face barriers to political inclusion and equal social standing"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Turks -- Funeral customs and rites -- Germany
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Turks -- Germany -- Social conditions
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Muslims -- Germany -- Social conditions
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Islamic cemeteries -- Social aspects -- Germany
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Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies -- Germany
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Islamic funeral rites and ceremonies
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Muslims -- Social conditions
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Turks -- Social conditions
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Germany
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009288576 |
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1009288571 |
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9781009288569 |
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1009288563 |
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