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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.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 304
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
Series: Anniversary Collection
Publication Date:
29 September 1982
ISBN: 9780812278491
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Anthropology
"Clearly and unpretentiously written, with a wealth of convincing details and narrative observation. . . . An admirable case study in the fields of comparative religion and informal philosophies of life."