A Borneo Journey into Death: Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals

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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Main Author: Metcalf, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. University of Pennsylvania Press [2017]
Edition:Reprint 2016
Series:SYMBOL AND CULTURE
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Links:https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818079
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818079
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818079
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818079
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818079
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818079
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818079
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818079
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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Jan. 23, 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource 19 illus
ISBN:9781512818079
DOI:10.9783/9781512818079