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Kwaio Religion: The Religion and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society

Paperback • 1982

Kwaio Religion: The Religion and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society

By Roger D. Abrahams

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In Kwaio Religion, Roger Keesing examines how the Kwaio, challenged by 110 years of European colonialism and now by the militant Christianity of their own rapidly Westernizing nation, have managed to continue their ancestral ways. Drawing on fieldwork carried out over a lost 20 years, Keesing explores the phenomenological reality of world where one's group includes the living and the dead, where conversations with the spirits, and the sing of their presence and acts, are very much a part of ever...Show more

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1982

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Kwaio Religion: The Religion and the Dead in a Solomon Island Society

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