Dialogues with the dead : the experience of mortality and its discussion among the Sora of Central India
Living Sora hold frequent dialogues with the dead, who speak with them through mediums in trances. The thesis explores the problems of understanding which this presents to the anthropologist. It takes the awareness of mortality as a universal human experience which is however discussed differently i...
Main Author: | Vitebsky, Piers |
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SOAS, University of London
1982
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.758732 |
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