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Death and the regeneration of life / edited by Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry

Published
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Physical Description
x, 236 p. ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Bloch, Maurice and Parry, Jonathan P.

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Contents
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.
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ISBN
0521248752
0521270375 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographies and index.
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