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Item Details
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A BORNEO JOURNEY INTO DEATH
BERAWAN ESCHATOLOGY FROM ITS RITUALS |
| By: |
Peter Metcalf |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£70.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1512818070 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781512818079 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1982 |
| Series: |
SYMBOL AND CULTURE |
| Pages: |
278 |
| Synopsis: |
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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19 illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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