Borneo Journey into Death

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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.
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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.
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  • Formats: pdf
  • ISBN: 9781512818079
  • Publication Date: 30 Jan 2017
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM