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María Cátedra

This World, Other Worlds

Sickness, Suicide, Death, and the Afterlife among the Vaqueiros de Alzada of Spain

Translated by William A. Christian, Jr.
397 pages, 25 halftones, 3 line drawings, 3 maps, 4 tables  6 x 9  © 1992

Cloth $90.00

ISBN: 9780226097152   Published November 1992

Paper $30.00

ISBN: 9780226097169   Published November 1992

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One - The Path to Death
1. Sickness and the Vaqueiro Cosmology
Part Two - Death
Introduction: Kinds of Death
2. Natural Death
3. Violent Death: Suicide
Conclusion: Kinds of Death and the House
4. The Burial
Part Three - The Afterlife
Introduction: The Second Funeral
5. The Spirits
6. The Saints
Conclusion: The Long Way of the Dead
Epilogue: Between Beasts and Saints
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects


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