Borneo Journey into Death - Peter Metcalf

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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.

Titel

Borneo Journey into Death

Untertitel

Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals

Autor

Peter Metcalf

EAN

9781512818079

Format

E-Book (pdf)

Hersteller

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.