Living Without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos

by Piers Vitebsky

Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt.

Today, young Sora are rejecting the worldview of their ancestors and switching their allegiance to warring sects of fundamentalist Christianity or Hinduism. Communion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226857778
• ISBN13: 9780226857770
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"