Death and the regeneration of life / edited by Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry
1987, 3rd edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #424573
ISBN: 0521270375
Physical description; x, 236 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographies and index. 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. Subjects; Funeral rites and ceremonies. Death. Religion. Fertility cults.
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