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  • 8 - Mourning Practices and the Cultivation of Selves – Views from the Hexi, Ordos, and Lingnan

  • from Part IV - Death Ritual
  • Alice Yao, University of Chicago, Wengcheong Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Book:
    The Archaeology of Han China
    Published online:
    12 December 2024
    Print publication:
    12 December 2024, pp 252-281

  • Summary

    Chapter 8 expands on funerary practices of Yue/Viet, Qiang, and “Xiongnu” subjects and asks how and why ritual conversion, which underlines the assimilationist campaign of jiaohua, was carried out. Through a comparison of tombs belonging to indigenous and Central Plains diasporic groups, this chapter argues that cultural boundaries dividing the Han/non-Han or Huaxia/ non-Huaxia world were magnified by differences in the presentation of the deceased’s physical body along ethnic and gender norms.