The writing of weddings in middle-period China : text and ritual practice in the eighth through fourteenth centuries /
"Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only recovers elements of the ritual practice of Middle-Period weddings, but also reassesses the relationship between texts and the Middle-Period past. Its fourfold narrative of the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The practice of the text
- Ritual manuals : exegetical hermeneutics and the re-embodiment of antiquity
- Wedding correspondence and nuptial songs : writing as cultural capital and text as ritual object
- Calendars, almanacs, miracle tales, and medical texts : cosmic cycles and the liminal affairs of man
- Legal codes, verdicts, and contracts : universal order and local practice
- Conclusion: Texts and tombs, ritual and history.