Hardback (29 Sep 1982)
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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.
| ISBN: | 9780812278491 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc. |
| Imprint: | University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection |
| Pub date: | 29 Sep 1982 |
| DEWEY: | 299.92 |
| DEWEY edition: | 19 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 275 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Height: | 230mm |
| Width: | 150mm |
| Spine width: | 18mm |
