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A Borneo Journey into Death : Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals /
The unusual and symbolically complex funerary rites of the Berawan of central Borneo are here analyzed in the first such full-length study based on modern ethnographic research. Metcalf demonstrates how the ritual sand social organization of death serve as a crucial point of entry into the cosmology...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2016 |
| Colección: | SYMBOL AND CULTURE
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The unusual and symbolically complex funerary rites of the Berawan of central Borneo are here analyzed in the first such full-length study based on modern ethnographic research. Metcalf demonstrates how the ritual sand social organization of death serve as a crucial point of entry into the cosmology of a non-Western culture. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (278 p.) : 19 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9781512818079 9783110442526 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |