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Living Without the Dead

Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos

Living Without the Dead( )
Author: Vitebsky, Piers
ISBN:978-0-226-47562-2
Publication Date:Oct 2017
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $47.95
Book Description:

Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing  in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt.   Today, young Sora are rejecting the worldview of their ancestors and switching their allegiance to warring sects of fundamentalist Christianity or Hinduism. Communion with ancestors...
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Book Details
Pages:380
Detailed Subjects: Body, Mind & Spirit / Spiritualism
Body, Mind & Spirit / Shamanism
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.71 x 2.36 x 0.22 cm
Book Weight:0.562 Kilograms
Author Biography
Vitebsky, Piers (Author)
Piers Vitebsky is an anthropologist & Head of Social Sciences at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England. He is author of "Dialogues with the Dead".

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