A Borneo Journey Into Death by Peter Metcalf

A Borneo Journey Into Death

Symbol and Culture

Peter Metcalf

278 pages missing pub info (editions)

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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...

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