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Ancestral images : a Hong Kong collection /
A new edition in one volume of Hugh Baker's celebrated three volumes of Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. Each mouthful is complete in itself, but t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A new edition in one volume of Hugh Baker's celebrated three volumes of Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kong's rural New Territories. Each mouthful is complete in itself, but together the articles amount to a substantial feast. They investigate religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides an understanding of a world which has not yet entirely disappeared, and whic. |
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| Notas: | Series statement from jacket. "This new revised edition collects in one place the articles from the three volumes of Hugh Baker's Ancestral images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981"--Jacket |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 390 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-379) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789888053834 9888053833 9789888083091 9888083090 |