A Borneo Journey Into Death

ISBN-13: 9780812278491 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 304 str.

Peter Metcalf

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"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."--Rodney Needham, Oxford University