Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality Among the Sora of Eastern India

Abstract

Part I. Sonum: The Continuation of Consciousness After Death: 1. Dialogues between the living and the dead 2.The Sora people 3. The formation of the Sora person 4. Interpreting and persuading the dead Part II. Responding to a New Death: 5. Transcription of a dialogue: the inquest on JAMANO 6. Redeeming the dead and protecting the living Part III. Operating the Calculus of All Previous Deaths: 7. Transcription of a dialogue with nineteen dead persons 8. States of mind among the dead and the living 9. Forgetting the dead 10. Dialogues with the self: Sora bereavement and the presuppositions of contemporary psychotherapy.

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