Charles Stafford

Separation and Reunion in Modern China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rituals concerning separation and reunion and their impact on Chinese and Taiwanese society and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 315g
• ISBN-13: 9780521784344
• ISBN-10: 0521784344
• Artikelnr.: 20998235

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: an anthropology of separation
1. Two festivals 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
9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan
Conclusion: the separation constraint.