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Burning MoneyC. Fred Blake

Black Magic, White Magic & the Theory of Magic

Burning Money

The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld

by C. Fred Blake

An anthropological study of joss paper, the spirit money burned for gods, ghosts and ancestors in Chinese communities. Blake explores what the practice reveals about reciprocity, value and the relation between the living and the dead.

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