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This World, Other Worlds: Sickness, Death and the Afterlife Among the Vaqueiros de Alzada of Spain
  
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This World, Other Worlds: Sickness, Death and the Afterlife Among the Vaqueiros de Alzada of Spain (Hardcover)

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  • Hardcover: 397 pages
  • Publisher: Chicago University Press; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226097153
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226097152
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 3 cm
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Suggesting that the study of death has been taboo for anthropologists, C tedra (anthropology, U. Complutense de Madrid) was led to the topic by her previous work with the Vaqueiros, a transhumant, cattle-breeding people. This volume is a shortened version of her doctoral thesis exploring their traditions, cosmology, and attitudes regarding death, i
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