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Ancestor worship as a book category gathers works that examine or creatively explore the worldwide practice of honoring the dead within family and kin groups. It includes scholarly studies and ethnographies of rituals—altars and tablets, offerings, memorial festivals, graveside rites—as well as histories and comparative religion texts on how veneration shapes lineage, ethics (such as filial piety), and social order, and reflects beliefs about ancestors’ ongoing presence and protection. The category spans ancient to contemporary contexts across East Asian, African, Pacific, Indigenous, and diasporic traditions, including syncretic forms and modern revivals. It also covers debates over “worship” versus “veneration,” colonial encounters, gender and power, and material culture. Alongside academic works, readers will find practical guides, folklore, and fiction and memoir centered on memory, haunting, inheritance, and kinship.

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