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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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  • Author : Peter Metcalf
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Total Pages : 300 pages
  • ISBN : 1512818070
  • PDF File Size : 36,9 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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A Borneo Journey into Death

A Borneo Journey into Death
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • File Size : 29,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 30 January 2017
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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 Architecture of Life and Death in Borneo

The Architecture of Life and Death in Borneo
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • File Size : 52,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 29 February 2004
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Among Borneo's spectacular indigenous buildings, the longhouses, mortuary monuments, and other architectural forms of the interior are some of the most outstanding, and much of the renewed interest in indigenous

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  • Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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  • Release Date : 25 June 2024
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  • Publisher : Springer
  • File Size : 41,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 12 August 2016
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This edited book is the first major review of what has been achieved in Borneo Studies to date. Chapters in this book situate research on Borneo within the general disciplinary

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  • File Size : 33,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 18 May 2021
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This is the eighth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume examine metaphors of path and journey among specific Austronesian societies located on islands from Taiwan

The Price of Death

The Price of Death
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • File Size : 54,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 February 2002
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Funerary practices have long been a classic topic of anthropological inquiry, which has tended to focus on death rituals as expressions and reinforcers of community ties and values. In this

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  • Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
  • File Size : 38,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 25 June 2024
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In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted classrooms around the world, Eugene Rogers transcribed the lectures that make his Introduction to Christian Thought course justly famous. The result

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  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 29,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 20 August 2020
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The dead are potent and omnipresent in modern Indonesia. Presidents and peasants alike meditate before sacred graves to exploit the power they confer, and mediums do good business curing the

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  • Publisher : Springer
  • File Size : 23,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 21 October 1999
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Koslofsky examines the human encounter with death in Germany from the eve of the Reformation to the rise of Pietism. The Protestant Reformation transformed the funeral more profoundly than any