ISBN:
9780759107335
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (321 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Chinese American Death Rituals : Respecting the Ancestors
DDC:
393.089951073
Keywords:
Chinese -- United States
;
Chinese Americans -- Funeral customs and rites
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Chinese American Death Rituals examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century until the present in order to understand the importance of Chinese funerary rites and their transformation through time. The authors in this volume discuss the meaning of funerary rituals and their normative dimension and the social practices that have been influenced by tradition. Shaped by individual beliefs, customs, religion, and environment, Chinese Americans have resolved the tensions between assimilation into the mainstream culture and their strong Chinese heritage i
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: "What We Didn't Understand": A History of Chinese Death Ritual in China and California; 2: On Dying American: Cantonese Rites for Death and Ghost-Spirits in an American City; 3: Archaeological Excavations at Virginiatown's Chinese Cemeteries; 4: Venerate These Bones: Chinese American Funerary and Burial Practices as Seen in Carlin, Elko County, Nevada; 5: Respecting the Dead: Chinese Cemeteries and Burial Practices in the Interior Pacific Northwest; 6: Remembering Ancestors in Hawai'i; 7: The Chinese Mortuary Tradition in San Francisco Chinatown
Description / Table of Contents:
8: Old Rituals in New Lands: Bringing the Ancestors to AmericaBibliography; Index; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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