A Borneo Journey into Death: Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals (Symbol and Culture)

xxi, 275 pp. "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."