Death, eschatology and exotic indigenous deathways have long held a privileged position in the ethnographic and popular literature on Borneo. Until the publication of this study, however, ancestors have remained a strangely neglected topic. Besides being the first major study of ancestors in Borneo societies, this volume challenges classic ethnographic representations of ancestor worship and genealogical understandings of ancestors in anthropology. Differing from classic ethnographic representations of ancestor worship based on Sino-African material, this volume will be not just of interest to regional specialists; it will also enrich the general anthropological theory of ancestors, kinship and religion

1. Ancestor worship - Borneo. 2. Kinship - Borneo. 3. Borneo - Religion.