Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-27019-8
Ph.D.
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
The Ohio State University
2017
Because of the strong emotions and sudden ruptures caused by death in a community, expressive culture relating to death offers special contexts to study ethnic culture, social structures, and inequality. This dissertation analyzes death-related folklore, specifically, talks and practices about death, the deceased, funerals, and lethal supernatural powers in an ethnic Hui (Chinese Muslim) village in China.
Comparative literature; Religion; Cultural anthropology; Folklore; Ethnic studies; Qualitative research; Chinese; Space; Rituals; Negotiation; Fieldwork; Culture; Beliefs; Asian studies; Families
Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Chinese Muslims;Death;Ethnology;Folklore study;Hui;Religious study