A Borneo Journey into Death: Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals
ISBN: 9781512818079
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies Berawan (Malaysian people); Berawan (Malaysian people) -- Religion;

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.


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