Erasing the Dead in Kaixiangong: Ancestry and Cultural Transforms in South China

• This article is based on a re-reading of the classical field monograph on Jiangsu Province, written by Fei Xiaotong in the 1930s. It highlights the forms of ancestral worship that prevailed there, forms that from a comparative perspective seem at odds with more general views on the topic. The ethnography is weak but suggestive, indicating a cultural strategy in which the dead were transformed from being benign ancestors into being efficacious gods.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialantropologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Anthropology (hsv//eng)

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ancestry

South China

China

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