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Funeral Practices in Papua New Guinea

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2020-07-01

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Hook, Milton

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It must be understood that foundational to all early Melanesian funeral practices was the prevailing animistic belief that everything in the natural world possessed a spirit. With respect to humans in particular, death was considered to be the most important stage in life, it being the transition from the visible form to the invisible form.

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Funeral Practices

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Hook, M. (2020). Funeral practices in Papua New Guinea. In D. Trim (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. Retrieved from https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/

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Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists

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