Wikipedia's article on veneration of the dead across cultures, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on veneration of the dead across cultures, consulted 2026-08-11, the lower tier reflecting a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, useful for a broad comparative overview. NotesWikipedia's article on veneration of the dead, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for its cross-cultural survey of memorial calendars in China, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, India and Madagascar, for the Chinese and Vietnamese contrast in who performs the rites, and for its own statement that no generally accepted theory of the practice's origin exists, citing David-Barrett and Carney's group-coordination hypothesis as one proposal among others, standard reference facts.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneration_of_the_dead
Source Typereference
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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