A Borneo Journey into Death Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals by Peter Metcalf 9781512818079 1512818070

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• ISBN 10: 1512818070
• ISBN 13: 9781512818079
• Author: Peter Metcalf

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.

Table contents:

A Note on the Orthography of Berawan
I. Approaches to Berawan Eschatology
II. Notions of Soul
III. The Season of the Souls Menace
IV. Celebrating the Ancestors
V. Cosmology of the Ancestral Spirits

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