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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Table of Contents:
- 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