Author: Catedra, Maria
Title: This World, Other Worlds. Sickness, Suicide, Death & the Afterlife among the Vaqueiros de Alzada of Spain
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii,389,(16)pp, Translated by William A. Christian, Jr.. 16pp photoplates.. Slight corner bumps, minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Path to Death: Sickness & the Vaqueiro Cosmology; Death: Kinds of Death; Natural Death; Violent Death: Suicide; Kinds of Death & the House; The Burial; The Afterlife: The Second Funeral; The Spirits; The Saints; The Long Way of the Dead; Epilogue: Between Beasts & Saints.

Keywords: Psychological Anthropology, Vaqueiros de Alzada, Asturias Spain, Death, Spanish Ethnography, Rural Sociology, Transhumance, Funerary Rituals, Vaqueiro Folklore