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082			_a305.89595 _bVIT-L
100			_aVitebsky, Piers
245		0	_aLiving without the dead _b: loss and redemption in a jungle cosmos
260			_aChicago _bUniversity of Chicago Press _c2017
300			_axv, 380p
504			_aincludes epilogue: spiritual ecosystems and loss of the- diversity, acknowledgements, glossary of ethnic groups and communities, references and index
520			_aJust 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. 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
650			_asocial group _vcommunities _vspiritualism _zIndia
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