A Borneo Journey Into Death by Metcalf, Peter

A Borneo Journey Into Death (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780812278491)

Vendor: Peter Metcalf
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Format: Hardcover
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A Borneo Journey Into Death by Metcalf, Peter

A Borneo Journey Into Death

$95.00
A Borneo Journey Into Death by Metcalf, Peter

A Borneo Journey Into Death

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Peter Metcalf
ISBN-10: 0812278496
ISBN-13: 9780812278491
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
Language: English
Published: 09/29/1982
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

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