Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms And Ruptures (Carolina Academic Press Ritual Studies Monographs.)
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This unique set of essays explores the multiple ways in which ritual practices have responded to, or have been a part of, historical and political changes. Particular chapters on China deal with the revival of festivals in Pucheng, Zhejiang Province (Paul Katz); the Emperor Huizong’s musical insignia (Joseph Lam); music and rituals for Hong Kong’s reunion with the Mainland (Yu Siu Wah); Christianity in nineteenth-century South China (Joseph Tse-Hei Lee); and refusal by Buddhists and Christians to bow to the Emperor (Eric Reinders). Chapters on Taiwan discuss cultural revival movements (Stewart and Strathern); a Daoist master’s performances (Marc Moskowitz); history in spirit-writing morality books (Philip Clart); and the cult of a female figure, Wang Yulan, on Jinmen Island (Michael Szonyi). Vesna Wallace’s chapter looks at transformations in Indian Tantric Buddhism. Throughout, the emphasis in this book is on complex connections between ritual, state politics, and changing senses of local and personal identity. This book is a part of the Ritual Studies Monograph Series edited by Stewart and Strathern.
About the Author
Pamela J. Stewart is an Anthropology Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh.
Andrew J. Strathern is a Mellon Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh.
Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms And Ruptures (Carolina Academic Press Ritual Studies Monographs.),Andrew J. Strathern,Pamela J. Stewart,Carolina Academic Press,1594601577,Anthropology - Cultural,Asia,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Rites and ceremonies,Ritual,Social Science,Sociology
Asian Ritual Systems: Syncretisms And Ruptures (Carolina Academic Press Ritual Studies Monographs.)
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