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Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on Translation xi Introduction: The Problem of Rebirth 1 1. Envisioning the Dead 33 2. The Unquiet Dead and Their Families, Political and Agnate 60 3. Questionable Shapes: How the Living Interrogated Their Dead 95 4. Doomed for a Certain Term: The Intimate Dead 130 5. Rebirth Reborn 158 Postscript 193 List of Abbreviations 199 Bibliography 203 Index 215 ...

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