| A Borneo Journey Into Death Reprint 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Metcalf, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812278496 ISBN-13: 9780812278491 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion |
| Dewey: 299.92 |
| LCCN: 82008460 |
| Series: Symbol & Culture Series |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.31 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |