Separation and reunion in modern China /

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Charles Stafford explores the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion, based upon his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China. He gives a vivid account of everyday rituals, and examines how they help people settle into communities, and to explain the passions aroused by the possibility of...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Stafford, Charles (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Sujets:
Separation (Psychology) > China.
Reunions > China.
Séparation (Psychologie) > Chine.
Réunions > Chine.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Manners and customs
Reunions
Separation (Psychology)
China > Social life and customs.
Chine > Mœurs et coutumes.
China
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Table des matières:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: an anthropology of separation
  • 1. Two festival of reunion
  • 2. The etiquette of parting and return
  • 3. Greeting and sending-off the dead
  • 4. The ambivalent threshold
  • 5. Commensality as reunion
  • 6. Women and the obligation to return
  • 7. Developing a sense of history
  • 8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion
  • 9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan
  • Conclusion: the separation constraint
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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