Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. Orthography xvi
7. Chapter 1 Protestations of ignorance? Or, things left unsaid? 1
8. Chapter 2 Ways of being: the living, the dead, the wild and God 23
9. Chapter 3 Ɉup: the Mapeo variant of cult 43
10. Chapter 4 Lera and vↄma: the Yeli variant 73
11. Chapter 5 The human span 91
12. Chapter 6 The annual round 124
13. Chapter 7 The animate wild 148
14. Chapter 8 Inanimate wilderness, and the nature of things 170
15. Chapter 9 The new religions of God 186
16. Chapter 10 God and the dead: locating the unknown 217
17. Appendix 1: Do different exegeses reflect only research methodology? 227
18. Appendix 2: Notes on Chamba cults 230
19. References 240
20. Index 245