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

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  • Title Living Without the Dead: Loss and Redemption in a Jungle Cosmos
  • Author Piers Vitebsky
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 380
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 2017-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780226475622 / 022647562X
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Shamanism - India, Spiritualism - India
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016058030
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.895

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About the author

Piers Vitebsky is Emeritus Head of Anthropology and Russian Northern Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books and has collaborated on television documentaries on BBC, Channel 4 and National Geographic. His book The Reindeer People won the Kiriyama Prize for nonfiction in 2006.

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