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Ancestral memory in early China /

Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestors). The interconnections among the tangible elements of the sacrifice were overt and almost mechanical, but extending those connections to the invisible...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brashier, K. E., 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2011.
Colección:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 72.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a This study is a history of the early Chinese ancestral cult, particularly its cognitive aspects. Its goals are to excavate the cult's color and vitality and to quell assumptions that it was no more than a simplistic and uninspired exchange of food for longevity, of prayers for prosperity. Ancestor worship was not, the author contends, merely mechanical and thoughtless. Rather, it was an idea system that aroused serious debates about the nature of postmortem existence, served as the religious backbone to Confucianism, and may even have been the forerunner of Daoist and Buddhist meditation practices. --Book Jacket. 
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