ABSTRACT
This chapter features various local agents, especially traveling itinerants, who make possible the production and reproduction of local household practices about the yin world. It presents ordinary villagers and a range of itinerant religious specialists who participate in death rituals, and discusses their different roles that contribute to the transmission of local ritual tradition. As specialists travel in villages for ritual occasions, especially funerals in families as well as rituals in village communities, they integrate, standardize, promote formations and flows of knowledge and beliefs about the yin world, and weave families and local communities into a dense network of knowledge and reciprocity.
