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Death and the regeneration of life / edited by Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry.
LIBRA GN486 .D4 1982
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Death.
- Religion.
- Fertility cults.
- Physical Description:
- x, 236 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521248752
- 0521270375
- OCLC:
- 8476378
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