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Songs for Dead Parents

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Songs for Dead Parents

By Erik Mueggler

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About the book

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In Songs for Dead Parents, Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practices surrounding it have become central to maintaining a connection with the world of ancestors, ghosts, and spirits that socialism explicitly disavowed. Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork in a mountain community in Yunnan Province, Songs for ...Show more

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9780226483382

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Songs for Dead Parents

Format

Hardcover

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