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OverviewA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In rural China funerals are conducted locally, on village land by village elders. But in urban areas, people have neither land for burials nor elder relatives to conduct funerals. Chinese urbanization, which has picked up drastically in the past decades, has involved the creation of cemeteries, state-run funeral homes, and small private funerary businesses. The Funeral of Mr. Wang examines social change in urbanizing China through the lens of funerals, the funerary industry, and practices of memorialization. It analyzes changes in family life, patterns of urban sociality, transformations in economic relations, the politics of memorialization, and the echoes of these changes in beliefs about the dead and ghosts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew B. KipnisPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780520381971ISBN 10: 0520381971 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 27 July 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a valuable resource for scholars interested in Chinese religiosity, urbanization, and politics. * Religious Studies Review * Author InformationAndrew B. Kipnis is Professor of Anthropology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, coeditor of Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, and author of From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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