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Living without the dead : loss and redemption in a jungle cosmos /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vitebsky, Piers (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Savara (Indic people) > Funeral customs and rites.
Spiritualism > India.
Shamanism > India.
Table of 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.