Language:
English
Pages:
x, 236 S
,
24 cm
Edition:
Repr
Keywords:
Funeral rites and ceremonies
;
Death
;
Religion
;
Fertility cults
;
Tod
;
Sozialanthropologie
;
Wiedergeburt
;
Sozialanthropologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry -- The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry -- Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern -- Lugbara death / John Middleton -- Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson -- Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn -- Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch
Note:
Includes bibliographies and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/82009467.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam028/82009467.html
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