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Songs for Dead Parents - Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China (Hardcover)
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Songs for Dead Parents - Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China (Hardcover)
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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 Dead Parents shows
how people view the dead as both material and immaterial, as
effigies replace corpses, tombstones replace effigies, and texts
eventually replace tombstones in a long process of disentangling
the dead from the shared world of matter and memory. It is through
these processes that people envision the cosmological underpinnings
of the world and assess the social relations that make up their
community. Thus, state interventions aimed at reforming death
practices have been deeply consequential, and Mueggler traces the
transformations they have wrought and their lasting effects.
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