A Borneo Journey Into Death

by Peter Metcalf

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812278496
• ISBN13: 9780812278491
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"