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’When You Drink Water, Think of Its Source”: Morality, Status, and Reinvention in Ryral Chinese Funerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Ellen Oxfeld
Ellen Oxfeld
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oxfeld@middlebury.eduProfessor ofAnthropology at Middlebury College.
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , November 2004 , pp. 961 - 990
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