{"title":"Casey Golomski","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"funeral-culture-book-casey-golomski-9780253036452","title":"Funeral Culture","description":"Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV\/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50253534757137,"sku":"CIN0253036453VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52734828151057,"sku":"NIN9780253036452","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0253036453.jpg?v=1763480551"},{"product_id":"god-s-waiting-room-book-casey-golomski-9781978840607","title":"God's Waiting Room","description":"Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. An innovation in creative nonfiction, Casey Golomski's story of his years of immersive research at a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, is narrated as a one-day, room-by-room tour. The story is told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations with the home's residents and nurses, including the untold story of Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison nurse, and readers learn how ageism, sexism, and racism intersect and impact health care both in South Africa and in the United States, as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.  Course or Book Club Reading and Discussion Guide (https:\/\/dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net\/rup-wp-v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/04135941\/gods-waiting-room_reading-questions.pdf)   For copyright reasons, this edition is not available in the South African Development Community and Kenya.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50727737295121,"sku":"NGR9781978840607","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51064499208465,"sku":"NIN9781978840607","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1978840608.jpg?v=1761387918"},{"product_id":"god-s-waiting-room-book-casey-golomski-9781978840614","title":"God's Waiting Room","description":"Can older racists change their tune, or will they haunt us further once they're gone? Rich in mystery and life's lessons, God's Waiting Room considers what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. An innovation in creative nonfiction, Casey Golomski's story of his years of immersive research at a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, is narrated as a one-day, room-by-room tour. The story is told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations with the home's residents and nurses, including the untold story of Nelson Mandela's Robben Island prison nurse, and readers learn how ageism, sexism, and racism intersect and impact health care both in South Africa and in the United States, as well as create conditions in which people primed to be enemies find grace despite the odds.  Course or Book Club Reading and Discussion Guide (https:\/\/dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net\/rup-wp-v2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/04135941\/gods-waiting-room_reading-questions.pdf)   For copyright reasons, this edition is not available in the South African Development Community and Kenya.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51625641017617,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51625641083153,"sku":"NIN9781978840614","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52085232632081,"sku":"NGR9781978840614","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1978840616.jpg?v=1761388623"},{"product_id":"funeral-culture-book-casey-golomski-9780253036445","title":"Funeral Culture","description":"Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV\/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa's last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people facing the work of caring for the sick and dying and burying the dead. Golomski's ethnography shows how AIDS posed challenging questions about the value of life, culture, and materiality to drive new forms and practices for funerals. Many of these forms and practicesnewly catered funeral feasts, an expanded market for life insurance, and the kingdom's first crematoriumare now conspicuous across the landscape and culturally disruptive in a highly traditionalist setting. This powerful and original account details how these new matters of death, dying, and funerals have become entrenched in peoples' everyday lives and become part of a quest to create dignity in the wake of a devastating epidemic.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52734792171793,"sku":"NIN9780253036445","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780253036445.jpg?v=1763476777"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/collections\/autor-buecher-von-casey-golomski.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}