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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Metcalf, Peter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Edition:Reprint 2016.
Series:SYMBOL AND CULTURE
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Online Access:Texto completo