(Interview)Funeral Strippers in China: Tomás Prower

Funeral strippers are exotic dancers, usually young women, who sing and dance and remove clothes at a funeral or in a procession to a funeral as a way to celebrate the life of the deceased and to attract mourners. Funeral stripping originated and is most common in Taiwan but it is unknown how the tradition came to be.

We interviewed Author Tomás Prower about his book Morbid Magic: Death Spirituality and Culture from Around the World.

Listen to the full interview on Radio Wasteland.