ISBN:
9780511488931
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 202 pages)
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DDC:
302/.1
Keywords:
Alltag, Brauchtum
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Separation (Psychology) / China
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Reunions / China
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Fest
;
Trennung
;
Brauch
;
Wiedervereinigung
;
Volkskultur
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China / Social life and customs
;
Taiwan
;
China
;
China
;
Trennung
;
Wiedervereinigung
;
Volkskultur
;
Taiwan
;
China
;
Fest
;
Brauch
Abstract:
In this original and readable book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of raucous festivals of reunion, elaborate rituals for the sending-off of gods (and daughters), poetic moments of leave-takings between friends, and bitter political rhetoric about Chinese national unity. The idioms and practices of separation and reunion - which are woven into the fabric of daily life - help people to explain the passions aroused by the possibility of national division. In this book, the discussion of everyday rituals leads into a unique and accessible general introduction to Chinese and Taiwanese society and culture
Description / Table of Contents:
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
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511488931
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