Browsing Center for Southeast Asian Studies by Subject "projective ritual"

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Mortuary Treatment, Pathology, and Social Relations of the Jiahu Community

Smith, Barbara Li; Lee, Yun Kuen (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2008)

Funeral ritual is a projective symbolic system where the treatment received by a deceased individual does not necessarily reflect the social position of that individual when living. Study of past social relations based on ...