Living without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos by Piers Vitebsky

Living without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos

Piers Vitebsky

380 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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