Ancestors in Borneo Societies: Death, Transformation, and Social Immortality

Book Overview

While death, eschatology and exotic indigenous deathways have long held a privileged position in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo, ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic. This volume fills this lacuna by presenting a collection of essays on ancestors in Borneo societies written by anthropologists with extensive experience in the field and drawing on new scholarship in kinship and animism studies.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776940926
• ISBN13: 9788776940928
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"