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Erasing the dead in Kaixiangongarticle 2015 • Aijmer, Göran
Han Chinese • Asia > East Asia
This is an examination of the ancestral cult at Kaixiangong, based on the foundational ethnography by Fei Xiaotong (1946). The author comments on the absence of village ancestral halls, the shallow genealogies of the villagers (five generations), and...Women, kitchen and belonging in eastern Chinaarticle 2005 • Aijmer, Göran
Han Chinese • Asia > East Asia
The author analyzes the original ethnography by Fei (1946), conveying an "ontology of realism" for women's lives in a rural peasant village through an examination of local practices and beliefs, especially ones regarding marriage and involving the st...