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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Reprint 2016. |
| Series: | SYMBOL AND CULTURE
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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