A Borneo Journey into Death : : Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals / / 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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©1982 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | SYMBOL AND CULTURE
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) :; 19 illus. |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |