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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Plates, Maps, Figures
- Preface
- A Note on the Orthography of Berawan
- I. Approaches to Berawan Eschatology
- II. Notions of Soul
- III. The Season of the Souls Menace
- IV. Celebrating the Ancestors
- V. Cosmology of the Ancestral Spirits
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter