Securing a life for the dead among the Yukpa. The exhumation ritual as a temporary synchronisation of worlds

This paper presents a description and analysis of the Yukpa exhumation ritual. The ritual is explained from an alterity-based socio-cosmological point of view based on the assumption that the internal structure of the death ritual only reveals itself if the existence of the co-present worlds of the...

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Main Author: Ernst Halbmayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société des américanistes 2013-09-01
Series:Journal de la Société des Américanistes
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/12620
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