Ancestors in Borneo Societies : Death, Transformation, and Social Immortality
, by Couderc, Pascal; Sillander, KennethNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9788776940928 | 8776940926
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/31/2012
Ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo. This volume fills this lacuna with essays drawing on new scholarship in kinship and animism studies. It outlines a distinctive pattern of Southeast Asian ancestorship based on inclusive and polythetic conceptions of ancestors, encompassing local predecessors traced through non-genealogical links and ancestors transformed into spirit animals.