Living without the dead (Record no. 9238)
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| fixed length control field | 01826nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780226475622 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.89595 |
| Item number | VIT-L |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Vitebsky, Piers |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Living without the dead |
| Sub Title | : loss and redemption in a jungle cosmos |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Chicago |
| Name of publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xv, 380p |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | includes epilogue: spiritual ecosystems and loss of the- diversity, acknowledgements, glossary of ethnic groups and communities, references and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Just one generation ago, the Sora tribe in India lived in a world populated by the spirits of their dead, who spoke to them through shamans in trance. Every day, they negotiated their wellbeing in heated arguments or in quiet reflections on their feelings of love, anger, and guilt. How can a society abandon one understanding of reality so suddenly and see the world in a totally different way? Over forty years, anthropologist Piers Vitebsky has shared the lives of shamans, pastors, ancestors, gods, policemen, missionaries, and alphabet worshippers, seeking explanations from social theory, psychoanalysis, and theology. Living without the Dead lays bare today’s crisis of indigenous religions and shows how historical reform can bring new fulfillments—but also new torments and uncertainties.<br/> <br/>Vitebsky explores the loss of the Sora tradition as one for greater humanity: just as we have been losing our wildernesses, so we have been losing a diverse range of cultural and spiritual possibilities, tribe by tribe. From the award-winning author of The Reindeer People, this is a heartbreaking story of cultural change and the extinction of an irreplaceable world, even while new religious forms come into being to take its place<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | social group |
| Form subdivision | communities |
| -- | spiritualism |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Bill Date | Full call number | Accession Number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 2018-03-23 | OP | 2018-02-28 | 305.89595 VIT-L | 49760 | 2019-04-18 | Books |