A Borneo Journey into Death

Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals

By:

Peter Metcalf

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Hardback

Series:

Anniversary Collection

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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.

Release date NZ

September 29th, 1982

Author

Peter Metcalf

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

19 illus.

Pages

304

Series

Anniversary Collection

ISBN-13

9780812278491

Product ID

15193022

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