A Borneo Journey Into Death

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
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
Published: 09/29/1982
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780812278491