No Room for the Dead. Burial Practices in a Constrained Environment
The amount of land available on the atolls, of the Marshall Islands is very limited and fertile land is few. Traditionally, the land was not enough to permit the interment of all dead and so the less important commoners were afforded a burial at sea. With the onset of Christianization everybody was...
| Publié dans: | Anthropos. - Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. - 94(1999), 1/3, Seite 35-56 |
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| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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1999
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| Accès à la collection: | Anthropos |
| Sujets: | Marshall Islands burial customs circumscribed environments coastal erosion land use Behavioral sciences Physical sciences Biological sciences Business Social sciences |
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