Separation and reunion in modern China /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.