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An Indonesian tribe has a unique ritual of preserving dead ancestors and living with their bodies until the funeral, which ...

Most of what happened around the death and subsequent funeral services for Pope Francis had a traditional ring to them. Obviously, when the pope dies in Rome, tradition has much to say about how ...

It’s hard to miss the coffin shaped like an old Nokia brick phone at the entrance of the sunlit workshop on the outskirts of Accra. Here, on a busy road next to Ghana’s Atlantic coastline, Eric Kpakpo ...

Preface -- Language and orthography -- Smith, skill, and the senses -- An African enigma -- The internal other -- Hot iron and cool pots -- Yellow wildness -- Of whistling birds and talking crabs -- ...