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Living without the dead : loss and redemption in a jungle cosmos
- Title
- Living without the dead : loss and redemption in a jungle cosmos / Piers Vitebsky.
- Author
- Vitebsky, Piers
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 18-2902 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 380 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- To the underworld with Ononti the shamaness -- Leopard power and police power, the jungle and the state -- What the living and the dead have to say to each other -- Memories without rememberers -- Young Monosi changes his world forever -- Doloso complicates the future of his mountaintop village -- Shocked by Baptists -- Christians die mute -- Redeemers human and divine -- Youth economics : life after sonums -- Dancing with alphabet worshippers : once and future Hindus? Interlude: Government kitsch and the old prophet's new message -- Six remarkable women and their destinies -- Epilogue: Spiritual ecosystems and loss of theo-diversity.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-2902
- ISBN
- 9780226857770
- 0226857778
- 9780226475622
- 022647562X
- LCCN
- 2016058030
- OCLC
- 962257653
- Author
- Vitebsky, Piers, author.
- Title
- Living without the dead : loss and redemption in a jungle cosmos / Piers Vitebsky.
- Publisher
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-2902