Burning Money : : The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld / / C. Fred Blake.
For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things-most often money-for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at time...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Chiasm
- Chapter 2. Endless Scroll
- Chapter 3. Origins
- Chapter 4. Liturgy
- Chapter 5. Ideology
- Chapter 6. Sacrifice
- Chapter 7. Ghost Bills
- Chapter 8. Burlesque
- Chapter 9. Value
- A Postscript on the Grain of Sand
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the Author