Ancestral Force in Iconic Imagery: Death and Continuance in a South China Village

This essay discusses idioms of continuance in a village in southeast China, based on what was recorded some one hundred years ago by an American sociologist, Daniel Harrison Kulp II, and his research team. This discussion is focused on the cult of the dead with a bearing on the construction of a pow...

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Main Author: Aijmer, Göran 1936- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 151-171
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B China (Südost) / Ancestor cult / Iconography / Cult of the dead
Further subjects:B Ancestor worship
B Southeast China
B iconic imagery
B ritual transformations
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