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Author : Clyde Stevan Harrell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
Download or read book Belief and Unbelief in a Taiwan Village written by Clyde Stevan Harrell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Belief and Unbelief in a Taiwan Village written by Stevan Harrell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295805633
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ploughshare Village written by Stevan Harrell and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthropological study of a workers’ village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1973 and 1978, the study is exceptional not only because of its excellent data but also because the village itself was unique. Unlike villages previously studied and written about, Ploughshare was neither an agricultural nor a fishing village, but rather one whose inhabitants earned their living mostly from coal mining, knitting, and other non-agrarian activities. Culture and environmental context thus shaped social organization there differently than in other Taiwanese villages. This ethnography links local data to surrounding socioeconomic spheres: it shows the village’s relationship to its region, to Taiwan as a whole, and to the international economy. It also captures an important point in time, as Taiwan was undergoing the “economic miracle” that brought it into the ranks of developed countries. Stevan Harrell’s new preface highlights changes not only in the village over the last several decades, but also in the ways that anthropologists think about culture and Taiwan. Ploughshare Village, with its rich descriptions and analyses, will be of value to anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and China specialists.
Author : Stevan Harrell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429723067
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cultural Change In Postwar Taiwan written by Stevan Harrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its increasing wealth, a growing and better-educated urban population, and one of the world's largest trade surpluses, Taiwan has shed its identity as an impoverished, war-torn nation and joined the ranks of developed countries. Yet, despite the attention focused on the country's profound transformation, surprisingly little information exists
Author : Robert P. Weller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349087750
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion written by Robert P. Weller and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christian Meyer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004533001
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs written by Christian Meyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume excavates the genealogy of xin 信--a term that has become the modern Chinese counterpart for the English word "faith." More than twenty experts trace its religious and non-religious roots in several traditions, including Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, Muslim, Christian, Japanese, popular religious, and modern secular contexts.
Author : P. Sangren
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804766606
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community written by P. Sangren and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a case study of history and culture in the Taiwanese town of Ta-ch'i and the group of rural villages that constitute its standard marketing community. However, its scope exceeds that of most community studies. The author attempts to construct a holistic view of Chinese culture from an analysis of the relationship between history and ritual in a particular locality. The author argues that social institutions and collective representations are dialectically connected in the process of social and cultural reproduction. He describes this dialectical process through an analysis of the key cultural concept of ling, the magical power attributed to ghosts, gods, and ancestors. In analyzing the symbolic logic of ling, he asserts that it can be fully understood only as a product of the reproduction of social institutions and as a manifestation of a native historical consciousness. Structuralist and Marxist insights are combined to explain how ling is best understood as both a cultural logic of symbolic relations and a material logic of social relations. The book is in three parts. Part I is a social and economic history that outlines what one might call an objectivist or positivist view of Ta-ch'i's history, describing events as they were, regardless of the perceptions of local participants. This material is a background to the synchronic sociological analysis of local territorial cults that constitutes Part II. In Part III, the author unsettles the objectivist assumptions of Part I by showing how the idiom of ling underlies Taiwanese constructions of history and identity and how the cultural construction of history dialectically reproduces society and creates history. The book is illustrated with 8 pages of photographs, 17 line drawings, and 9 maps.
Author : Dru C. Gladney
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674594975
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Muslim Chinese written by Dru C. Gladney and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1996 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Dru Gladney's critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the author, as well as a valuable addendum to the bibliography, already hailed as one of the most extensive listing of modern sources on the Sino-Muslims.
Author : Daniel L. Overmyer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900417592X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century written by Daniel L. Overmyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive survey of the structure, organization and institutionalization of local community religious traditions in north China villages in the twentieth century. These traditions have their own forms of leaders, deities and beliefs. Despite much local variation one everywhere finds similar temples, images, offerings and temple festivals, all supported by practical concerns for divine aid to deal with the problems of everyday life. These local traditions are a structure in the history of Chinese religions; they have a clear sense of their own integrity and rules, handed down by their ancestors. There are Daoist, Buddhist and government influences on these traditions, but they must be adapted to the needs of local communities. It is the villagers who build temples and organize festivals, in which all members of the community are expected to participate and contribute. With chapters on such topics as historical origins and development, leadership and organization, temple festivals, temples and deities, and beliefs and values.
Author : Marc L. Moskowitz
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824824280
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Haunting Fetus written by Marc L. Moskowitz and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haunting Fetus focuses on the belief in modern Taiwan that an aborted fetus can return to haunt its family. Although the topic has been researched in Japan and commented on in the Taiwanese press, it has not been studied systematically in relation to Taiwan in either English or Chinese. This fascinating study looks at a range of topics pertaining to the belief in haunting fetuses, including abortion, sexuality, the changing nature of familial power structures, the economy, and traditional and modern views of the spirit world in Taiwan and in traditional Chinese thought. It addresses the mental, moral, and psychological aspects of abortion within the context of modernization processes and how these ramify through historical epistemologies and folk traditions. The author illustrates how images of fetus-ghosts are often used to manipulate women, either through fear or guilt, into paying exorbitant sums of money for appeasement. He argues at the same time, however, that although appeasement can be expensive, it provides important psychological comfort to women who have had abortions as well as a much-needed means to project personal and familial feelings of transgression onto a safely displaced object. In addition to bringing to the surface underlying tensions within a family, appeasing fetus-ghosts, like other dealings with supernatural beings in Chinese religions, allows for atonement through economic avenues. The paradox in which fetus-ghost appeasement simultaneously exploits and assists evinces the true complexity of the issue--and of religious and gender studies as a whole.
