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Dialogues with the dead : the discussion of mortality among the Sora of eastern India
- Title
- Dialogues with the dead : the discussion of mortality among the Sora of eastern India / Piers Vitebsky.
- Author
- Vitebsky, Piers.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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- Description
- xix, 294 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 88
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 88.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Sonum: the continuation of consciousness after death. 1. Dialogues between the living and the dead. 2. The Sora people. 3. The formation of the Sora person. 4. Interpreting and persuading the dead -- Pt. II. Responding to a new death. 5. Transcription of a dialogue from the inquest on Jamano. 6. Redeeming the dead and protecting the living -- Pt. III. Operating the calculus of all previous deaths. 7. Transcription of a dialogue with nineteen dead persons. 8. Memories and rememberers: states of mind among the dead and the living. 9. Forgetting the dead. 10. Dialogues with the self? Sora bereavement and the presuppositions of contemporary psychotherapy -- Appendix 1. List of sonums recorded in Alinsing.
- ISBN
- 0521384478
- LCCN
- 92005723
- OCLC
- 25632722
- ocm25632722
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries