A Borneo Journey into Death : : Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals / / Peter Metcalf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Metcalf, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: SYMBOL AND CULTURE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.) :; 19 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Plates, Maps, Figures --; Preface --; A Note on the Orthography of Berawan --; I. Approaches to Berawan Eschatology --; II. Notions of Soul --; III. The Season of the Souls Menace --; IV. Celebrating the Ancestors --; V. Cosmology of the Ancestral Spirits --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512818079; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512818079
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Metcalf.

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.