Death and the regeneration of life /
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| Natura: | Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
c1982.
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| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
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Sommario:
- 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.