Silent Questions: (Not) Talking about Dying in the Pearl River Delta

This Field Notes contribution describes the difficulty of confronting the topic of dying in conversations with terminally ill persons in the Pearl River Delta region in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and how the ethnographer responded to this difficulty in a way she did not expect. While ther...

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Main Author: Mira Menzfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2022-02-01
Series:Medicine Anthropology Theory
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Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5536