History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community

Name: History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community
Author: P. Steven Sangren

Auteur: P. Steven Sangren

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: P. Steven Sangren

Engels
Hardcover
9780804713443
01 september 1987
280 pagina's

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Presents 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. 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.

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.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 september 1987
Aantal pagina's: 280
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: P. Steven Sangren
Hoofduitgeverij: Stanford University Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 165 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 241 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 165 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 241 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 612 g

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EAN: 9780804713443

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

Geschiedenis

Cultuur

Religie

Alternatieve overtuigingen

Occulte studies

Culturele antropologie

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Taal: Engels
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