Reincarnation

1996. Reincarnation. In D. Levinson & M. Ember (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (Vol. 3, pp. 1086-1088). New York: Henry Holt.

The belief in reincarnation is found not only in societies dominated by Hinduism and Buddhism, but by many animistic tribal societies as well. This article describes the main characteristics of the latter.

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