Acting Ritually: Evidence from the Social Life of Chinese Rites

The Blackwell Companion to Sociology of Religion

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 371-387

  Bell, Catherine ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Relationships; Religion; Social anthropology; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 46749138402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998571.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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