A Borneo Journey into Death: Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals

by Peter Metcalf

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812278491
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	09/29/1982
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016 ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

"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."

Oxford University Rodney Needham

"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

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