Book review: Isabel Bredenbröker. Rest in Plastic Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community. New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2024, 322 pp. Hard back ISBN 978-1-80539-503-4
Isabel Bredenbröker’s exploration of funerary practices in Peki, a town in Ghana’s Volta Region, offers a profound and nuanced dissection of the interplay between death, community, and the material world. Her book is structured into three distinct part…