Living Without the Dead Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos

Name: Living Without the Dead Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos
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ISBN: 9780226475622

ISBN-10: 022647562X

ISBN-13: 9780226475622

Edition: 2017

Authors: Piers Vitebsky

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Piers Vitebsky's work is characterized by deep involvement with the people he writes about--often over decades, involving the mastery of several languages, and built on extensive and deep friendships that blur the lines between outsider and insider. Living without the Dead is a testament to what can be learned through such sustained involvement. Following the Indian tribal community of the Sora over forty years, Vitebsky tells a heartbreaking story of cultural change and the slow extinction of a profound religious system. The Sora are a pre-Hindu tribal society in the highland jungles of southeastern India who once engaged in highly advanced shamanistic practices that, through…

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/19/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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".