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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Metcalf, Peter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edición:Reprint 2016.
Colección:SYMBOL AND CULTURE
Temas:
Berawan (Malaysian people) > Funeral customs and rites.
Berawan (Malaysian people) > Religion.
Berawan (Peuple de Malaisie) > Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Berawan (Malaysian people) > Funeral customs and rites
Berawan (Malaysian people) > Religion
Acceso en línea: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

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