Death and the regeneration of life
Print Book, English, 1982
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1982
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 236 pages ; 24 cm
9780521248754, 9780521270373, 0521248752, 0521270375
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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