Living without the Dead : Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos /

Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt. Today, young Sora...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vitebsky, Piers (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2017]
Temas:
Savara (Indic people) > Funeral customs and rites.
Savara (Indic people) > Funeral customs and rites.
Shamanism > India.
Spiritualism > India.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
loss, redemption, india, sora, tribe, indigenous, colonialism, spirits, ancestors, death, afterlife, love, anger, guilt, religion, fundamentalism, social change, generations, hinduism, christianity, communion, meditation, communication, sacred sites, ritual, rites, ceremony, spirituality, shamans, priests, masculinity, femininity, power, authority, gender, prayer, literacy, freedom, progress, employment, forgetting, memory, legacy, democracy, politics, funerals, nonfiction, anthropology, sociology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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