Animals and ancestors (An ethnography)
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- Verlag BERG PUBLISHERS
- Schriftsteller Morris, Brian
- ISBN13 9781859734919
- ISBN10 185973491X
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 287
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2000
- Bindung Gebunden
Animals and ancestors (An ethnography)
This companion volume to Morris' important earlier work, The Power of Animals, is a sustained investigation of the Malawi people's sacramental attitude to animals, particularly the role that animals play in life-cycle rituals, their relationship to the divinity and to spirits of the dead. How people relate to and use animals speaks volumes about their culture and beliefs. This book overturns the ingrained prejudice within much ethnographic work, which has often dismissed the pivotal role animals play in culture, and shows that personhood, religion, and a wide range of rituals are informed by, and even dependent upon, human-animal relations.
Author Biography: Brian Morris is Professor of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, Universiy of London.
- Verlag BERG PUBLISHERS
- Schriftsteller Morris, Brian
- ISBN13 9781859734919
- ISBN10 185973491X
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 287
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2000
- Bindung Gebunden
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