Reading 1 – Death be Not Strange by Peter MetcalfI. Anthropologists see the exotic as dangerously close to the sensational, and therefore a threat to the respectability of a serious academic disciplineII. The Berawan Funeral Rites in Borenoa. Involved “secondary burial” b. Don’t usually bury the deadc. First Stage: 2 to 10 days consisting of rites performed immediately after deathd. Second Stage: 8 to 10 months when family stores corpse in the longhouse or on the simple platform in the graveyarde. Third Stage: if corpse in graveyard, family brings it back to the longhouse to keep for 6 to 10 days while family entertains guests, thenremains are removed to final resting placef. Fourth Stage: Storage of bodyi. Place corpse in large jars or massive coffinsii. Use valuable glazed jars of left over coffiniii. Take out bones of deceased and clean themiv. Some consume liquids of decomposition with rice (endocannibalism) –EXOTICg. Keeps corpses around the houseIII. Berawan’s funeral rites Meaninga. Attracted many ethnologistsb. Believed that after death the soul is divorced from the body and cannot reanimate the already decaying corpsesc. Believed the souls cannot enter the land of the dead because it is not yet a perfect spiritd. T become truly dead, it must undergo a metamorphosise. Hertz called the third stage “great feast”, marking the end of the miserable period and passes to the land of the deadReading 2 – Schiller 2007 Borneo FamiliesI. Kaharingan Families and Kineshiptermsa. Most are Christian, some Islam, but a minority group practices Kaharingan – involves belief in a high god with male and female dimensions, as well as a host of other good and evil supernatural beingsb. Use a system of naming called “teknonomy” to avoid being disrespectful towards elderly peoplec. Same kinship terms are often applied to people whether they are related by blood or by marriaged. Ideal is to marry your cousin so if youre not related to someone by blood you can’t be completely sure they are human (could be supernatural that destroys families)II. Providing for family members in the Afterlifea. Burial of deceased in the eawrth while priests chants then years later the deseased family has another death ritual involving unearthing the body, cleaning the bones, then put them