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