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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.

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A Borneo Journey into Death
  • Author : Peter Metcalf
  • Release : 30 January 2017
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • ISBN : 9781512818079
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Total Page : 300 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 21,7 Mb

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