Death and the regeneration of life /
Contributor(s): Bloch, Maurice
| Parry, Jonathan P.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982, (2001)Description: x, 236 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521248752; 9780521270373; 9780521248754; 0521270375 (pbk.); 9780521270373 (pbk.).Subject(s): Witchcraft | Cannibalism | Sacrifice | Religion | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Death | Fertility cultsDDC classification: 133.43 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry -- The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry -- Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern -- Lugbara death / John Middleton -- Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson -- Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn -- Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch.