Emperor And Ancestor

Author : David Faure
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753180
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emperor and Ancestor written by David Faure and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state—first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.

Author : David Faure
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804767934
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emperor and Ancestor written by David Faure and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state—first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.

Author : Harry Hussey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venerable Ancestor written by Harry Hussey and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Xiaonan Deng
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004473270
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancestors' Instructions Must Not Change: Political Discourse and Practice in the Song Period written by Xiaonan Deng and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an account of how ‘ancestors’ instructions’ were used and abused in the Song period. It digs deeply into abundant resources to tease apart the complex and versatile relationship between the meaning and the truth of the Song discourse of ancestors’ instructions.

Author : Frank Ching
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780449903537
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestors, 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family written by Frank Ching and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true celebration of Chinese life begins and ends with the author as he traces his family back thirty-four generations to the eleventh century. Through illuminating family portraits, the history of China comes magically alive.

Author : William Hare Newell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789027978592
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestors written by William Hare Newell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1976 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Faure
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774823704
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chieftains into Ancestors written by David Faure and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While official Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint, Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewrite the story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in the first place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis to build a new regional history – one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place in China’s nation-building process.

Author : David Stone Potter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190231629
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantine the Emperor written by David Stone Potter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a critical eye aimed at earlier accounts of Constantine's life, the author aims to provide the most comprehensive, authoritative and readable account of the Roman emperor's extraordinary life.

Author : David Faure
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774823682
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chieftains Into Ancestors written by David Faure and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture in the culturally diverse southwestern region of China. Contemplating the rhetorical question of how one can begin to rewrite the story of a conquered people whose past was never transcribed in the first place, the authors combine anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis to build a new regional history.

Author : Anya Peterson Royce
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438436793
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming an Ancestor written by Anya Peterson Royce and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful and beautifully written, this is the story of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Mexico and their unbroken chain of ancestors and collective memory over the generations. Mortuary beliefs and actions are collective and pervasive in ways not seen in the United States, a resonant deep structure across many domains of Zapotec culture. Anthropologist Anya Peterson Royce draws upon forty years of participant research in the city of Juchitán to offer a finely textured portrait of the vibrant and enduring power of death in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec of Mexico. Focusing especially on the lives of Zapotec women, Becoming an Ancestor highlights the aesthetic sensibility and durability of mortuary traditions in the past and present. An intricate blending of Roman Catholicism and indigenous spiritual tradition, death through beliefs and practices expresses a collective solidarity that connects families, binds the living and dead, and blurs the past and present. A model of ethnographic research and presentation, Becoming an Ancestor not only reveals the luminescent heart of Zapotec culture but also provides important clues about the cultural power and potential of mortuary traditions for all societies.