Chinese death rituals in Singapore / Chee-Kiong, Tong
Imprint
London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2012
Descript
viii, 194 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
The problem of death -- The process of death: funeral rituals -- Temples and graveyards: ancestral rituals -- Kin and kindred: death and social relations -- Bones and souls: death and inheritance -- Flesh and blood: putrescence and the pollution of death -- Unnatural deaths -- Conclusions: dangerous blood, refined souls