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A Borneo Journey Into Death

A Borneo Journey Into Death

Hardcover

Series: Anniversary Collection

Comparative Religion

ISBN10: 0812278496
ISBN13: 9780812278491
Publisher: Univ Penn Pr Anniversary Colle
Published: Sep 29 1982
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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