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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mueggler, Erik (1962-....)
Titre(s) : Songs for dead parents [Texte imprimé] : corpse, text, and world in Southwest China / Erik Mueggler
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 336 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Sujet(s) : Mort -- Chine (sud-ouest)
Rites et cérémonies funéraires -- Chine (sud-ouest)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226483382. - ISBN 022648338X. - ISBN 9780226481005. - ISBN 022648100X. -
ISBN 9780226483412 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45319961r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45319961
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1. Corpse, stone, door, text ; 2. A life, a soul, a body ; 3. Playing with corpses
; 4. Making the dead modern ; 5. Songs for dead parents ; 6. Earth work ; 7. Soul
work ; 8. Body work
