Burning money : the material spirit of the Chinese lifeworld /

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For a thousand years throughout China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. This book explores the cultural logic of this practice while addressing larger anthropological questions...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Blake, C. Fred, 1942-2017
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2012.
Sujets:
Rites and ceremonies > China.
Spirit money > China.
Rites et cérémonies > Chine.
Papier votif.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Manners and customs.
Rites and ceremonies.
Spirit money.
Ritus
Soziales Lebensgefühl
Wirtschaft
Riter > Kina.
Ceremonier > folktro och folkseder > Kina.
Pengar > folktro och folkseder > Kina.
China > Social life and customs.
Chine > Mœurs et coutumes.
China.
China
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Chiasm
  • Endless scroll
  • Origins
  • Liturgy
  • Ideology
  • Sacrifice
  • Ghost bills
  • Burlesque
  • Value
  • A postscript on a grain of sand.

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