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Ancestors in Borneo Societies
Death, Transformation, and Social Immortality
Death, eschatology and exotic indigenous deathways have long held a privileged position in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo. Until the publication of this study, however, ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic. Differing from classic ethnographic representations of ancestor worship based on Sino-African material, this volume will be not just of interest to regional specialists; it will also enrich the general anthropological theory of ancestors, kinship and religion.
400 pages | 33 figures, 2 maps | 5.98 x 9.02 | © 2012
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology