BOOKS - A Borneo Journey into Death: Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals
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A Borneo Journey into Death: Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals
Author: Peter Metcalf
Year: September 1, 1982
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 13 MB
Language: English
Year: September 1, 1982
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 13 MB
Language: English
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.