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Ancestor-Ruled Alien Societies

Ancestor-ruled alien societies imagine a form of civilization in which the dead are not only remembered but treated as ongoing constitutional actors. Drawing on anthropology of kinship, mortuary ritual, lineage politics, cultural memory, political uses of the dead, and science-fiction models of inherited consciousness, the framework explores how an alien civilization might let ancestry, tombs, genealogies, and sacred precedent govern the living across centuries or millennia.