Chinese Funerals in San Francisco Chinatown

American Chinese Expressions in Mortuary Ritual Performance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2801415
AutoresLinda Sun Crowder (autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen113
Número450
Páginas451-463
Fecha de publicación2000-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
EditorialUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/542042
OpenAlexW2324891860
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas9

The public performance of funeral rituals in San Francisco Chinatown is a viewing lens through which the cultural identity of this famous ethnic community and tourist attraction is exposed. While the varied range of mortuary performances reveals the heterogeneous composition of a multiethnic Chinese place, the majority of funerals are of a standard ritual type that identifies the self-image of Chinatown as being modernized, urban Chinese. Modified and formulated in the U.S. context, the Chinatown funeral is a hybrid composite of traditional Chinese and Western cultural and religious elements. Crafted and constituted by Chinatown, these syncretic, Americanized funerals are American Chinese cultural expressions of a localized Chinatown culture

Archaeology · Chinatown · Chinese americans · Context (archaeology) · Ethnic group · Immigration · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy