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Social integration of religion and ritual in prehistoric China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Yun Kuen Lee  and
Naicheng Zhu
Yun Kuen Lee
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
Naicheng Zhu
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 27 Wangfujing Dajie, Beijing 100710, People's Republic of China
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Abstract

The authors employ examples from Chinese prehistory to demonstrate that religion could maintain and reinforce order in various aspects of social lives.

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Chinaritualfuneral treatmentfeastingmonument

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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 293 , September 2002 , pp. 715 - 723
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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