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Corpse lives with family / [produced by National Geographic].
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dead.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies--Indonesia--Tana Toraja.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Burial--Indonesia--Tana Toraja.
- Burial.
- Mourning customs--Indonesia--Tana Toraja.
- Mourning customs.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Death.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2015]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- In the village of Toraja, Indonesia, animistic tradition dictates that corpses live with families until they can be buried in lavish funerals. In the meantime, the family treats the corpse as if it is still a living person.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 20, 2017).
- OCLC:
- 1000198352
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