A Borneo Journey Into Death

By Peter Metcalf

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812278496

ISBN13:9780812278491

Release Date:September 1982

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary

Length:304 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary

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