TY - JOUR
TI - Obrazki z pogrzebu. Wizualność i żałoba we współczesnej Ghanie
AU - Niedźwiedź, Anna
TI - Obrazki z pogrzebu. Wizualność i żałoba we współczesnej Ghanie
AB - 
	Pictures at a Funeral: Visuality and Mourning in Contemporary Ghana 

	Images and various visual representations accompany funeral celebrations and a process of mourning in various cultures: in the past as well as today. This article focusses on ways in which burials and funerals are celebrated in contemporary Ghana and discusses various relations functioning between mourning and visuality. Based on ethnographic data collected during fieldwork in Brong-Ahafo region (central Ghana) the author analyses visuals used as well as produced during funerals: photographs and videos made during celebrations, images printed in funeral booklets, invitation letters and obituaries. Additionally a visual presentation of a dead body during the laying-in-state-ceremony is discussed as a symbolic image of a dead person. Funeral images popular in contemporary Ghana seem to be designed as if opposing the concept of death as the end of life. Pictures ‒ abundantly produced and distributed on the course of long-lasting funeral celebrations ‒ represent a dead person as an embodiment of success, vitality and wealth.
	 
VL - 2014
IS - Tom 42, Numer 4
PY - 2015
SN - 0083-4327
C1 - 2299-9558
SP - 349
EP - 362
DO - 10.4467/22999558.PE.14.023.3552
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/prace-etnograficzne/artykul/obrazki-z-pogrzebu-wizualnosc-i-zaloba-we-wspolczesnej-ghanie
KW - Ghana
KW - funerals and burials
KW - visual representation
KW - photography and video
KW - visual anthropology