Death and the regeneration of life / edited by Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.Description: x, 236 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0521248752
- 0521270375 (pbk.)
- GN486Â .D4 1982
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| TAMCAS Library TAMCAS General shelves | GN486 .D4 1982 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | CAS | A-7865 |
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| GN485 .D55 Dimensions : | GN485 .S5 The role of the aged in primitive society, | GN486 .D4 1982 Death and the regeneration of life / | GN486 .D4 1982 Death and the regeneration of life / | GN486 .G6 Death, property and the ancestors; | GN486 .H84 Celebrations of death : | GN486 .H84 Celebrations of death : |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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