- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore
About this book
Through a cultural analysis of the symbols of death - flesh, blood, bones, souls, time numbers, food and money - Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore throws light upon the Chinese perception of death and how they cope with its eventuality. In the seeming mass of religious rituals and beliefs, it suggests that there is an underlying logic to the rituals. This in turn leads Kiong to examine the interrelationship between death and the socioeconomic value system of China as a whole.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of plates
- 1 The problem of death
- 2 The process of death: funeral rituals
- 3 Temples and graveyards: ancestral rituals
- 4 Kin and kindred: death and social relations
- 5 Bones and souls: death and inheritance
- 6 Flesh and blood: putrescence and the pollution of death
- 7 Unnatural deaths
- 8 Conclusions: dangerous blood, refined souls
- Appendix: list of Chinese characters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index