Chinese American death rituals : respecting the ancestors / edited by Sue Fawn Chung and Priscilla Wegars.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Chung, Sue Fawn, 1944- Wegars, Priscilla
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:	Chinese Americans > Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	ix, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction / Sue Fawn Chung and Priscilla Wegars
"What we didn't understand" : a history of Chinese death ritual in China and California / Wendy L. Rouse
On dying American : Cantonese rites for death and ghost-spirits in an American city / Paul G. Chace
Archaeological excavations at Virginiatown's Chinese cemeteries / Wendy L. Rouse
Venerate these bones : Chinese American funerary and burial practices as seen in Carlin, Elko County, Nevada / Sue Fawn Chung, Fred P. Frampton, and Timothy W. Murphy
Respecting the dead : Chinese cemeteries and burial practices in the interior Pacific Northwest / Terry Abraham and Priscilla Wegars
Remembering ancestors in Hawai'i / Sue Fawn Chung and Reiko Neizman
The Chinese mortuary tradition in San Francisco Chinatown / Linda Sun Crowder
Old rituals in new lands : bringing the ancestors to America / Roberta S. Greenwood.