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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 1243 — Chapter V · PIACULAR RITES AND THE AMBIGUITY OF THE NOTION OF SACREDNESS

Joseph Ward Swain translation

For the principal forms of funeral rites, see Howitt, Nat. Tr., pp. 446-508, for the tribes of the South-East; Spencer and Gillen, Nor. Tr., p. 505, and Nat. Tr., pp. 497 ff., for those of the centre; Roth, Nor. Queensland Ethnog., Bull. 9, in Records of the Australian Museum, VI, No. 5, pp. 365 ff. (Burial Customs and Disposal of the Dead).

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