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Author : S. M. Shirokogoroff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004067719
Author : Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogorov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : OCLC:1086709864
Author : Sergei Mikhailovich Shirokogoroff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Anthropometry
ISBN : OCLC:603538300
Author : Sergej M. Širokogorov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Anthropometry
ISBN : OCLC:1086709864
Author : Anne P. Underhill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461506416
This book offers an anthropological analysis of how craft production changed in relation to the development of complex societies in northern China. It focuses on the production and use of food containers-pottery and bronze vessels-during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. A major theme is how production and use of prestige vessels changed in relation to increase in degree of social inequality. The research and writing of this book took place intermittently over a period of several years. When I first outlined the book in 1994, I planned to offer a more limited and descriptive account of social change during the late prehistoric period. In considering the human desire to display status with prestige goods, my initial approach emphasized how the case of northern China was similar to other areas of the world. I began to realize that in order to adequately explain how and why craft production changed in ancient China, it was crucial to consider the belief systems that motivated produc tion and use of food containers. Similarly, a striking characteristic of ancient China that I needed to include in the analysis was the preponderance of food containers, rather than other goods, that were buried with the deceased. I decided to investigate the social and ritual uses of food, bever ages, and containers during more than one period of Chinese history. Some strong patterns could have emerged during the late prehistoric period.
Author : Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Shirokogorov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036713498
Author : Fu Yuguang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000319774
Based on first-hand materials gathered through decades of field research and fleshed out with the author's insightful religious, cultural, and historical observations extending back to Qing Dynasty times, ancient archaeological discoveries and the legacy of Siberian peoples, this two-volume ethnological study investigates shamanic rituals, myths and lore in northern China and explores the common ideology underlying the origins of the region's cultures. The two volumes discuss the spiritual world of northern Shamanism and investigates the various shamanic rituals, divination, spirit idols and myths, illuminating how worship and ideas are imbedded in and interweave with the indigenous environment, culture and history of people in northern China. This mythic heritage embodies the peoples' understanding of the natural world, the creation of humankind, social life and history as well as their interaction with their surroundings. It is shown that shamanic spirituality in northern China is characterised by functionality and practicality in daily-life situations, in contrast to the received wisdom that defines shamanic praxis as a pure supernatural spirit journey. The set will be of great value for scholars of religion and anthropologists as well as ethnologists in the fields of Shamanism studies, Northeast Asian folklore and Manchu studies.
Author : Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Shirokogorov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Anthropometry
ISBN : UOM:39015070300242
Author : Stephan Feuchtwang,Charlotte Bruckermann
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783269853
Putting China into the context of general anthropology offers novel insights into its history, culture and society. Studies in the anthropology of China need to look outwards, to other anthropological areas, while at the same time, anthropologists specialised elsewhere cannot afford to ignore contributions from China. This book introduces a number of key themes and in each case describes how the anthropology and ethnography of China relates to the surrounding theories and issues. The themes chosen include the anthropology of intimacy, of morality, of food and of feasting, as well as the anthropology of civilisation, modernity and the state.The Anthropology of China covers both long historical perspectives and ethnographies of the twenty-first century. For the first time, ethnographic perspectives on China are contextualised in comparison with general anthropological debates. Readers are invited to engage in and rethink China's place within the wider world, making it perfect for professional researchers and teachers of anthropology and Chinese history and society, and for advanced undergraduate and graduate study.
Author : Fu Yuguang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000295597
On the basis of first-hand materials gathered through decades of field research and fleshed out with the author’s insightful religious, cultural, and historical observations extending back to the Qing dynasty, ancient archaeological discoveries, and the legacy of Siberian peoples, this two-volume ethnological study investigates shamanic rituals, myths, and lore in northern China and explores the common ideology underlying the origins of the region’s cultures. This second volume focuses on northern shamanic divination, spirit idols, and folklore covering the myths of the Manchu-Tungus, Manchu creation shrine tales, and individual tribal myths. This mythic heritage helps identify shared patterns of thought among the ethnic peoples of northern China; points to cultural integration with Buddhist, Daoist, and Han Chinese cultures; and shows their understand of the natural world, the creation of humankind, social life, and history and their interactions with their surroundings. In this regard, shamanic spirituality in northern China is characterized by functionality and practicality in daily life situations, in contrast to the received wisdom that defines shamanic praxis as a pure supernatural spirit journey. The book will be of great value to scholars of religion and to both anthropologists and ethnologists in the fields of shamanism studies, Northeast Asian folklore, and Manchu studies.
Author : Susanne Brandtstädter,Gonçalo D Santos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015080821609
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender relations – and vice-versa. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic material from the late imperial period and from contemporary Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China, from northern and southern regions as well as from rural and urban settings, the volume provides unique insights into the historical and spatial diversities of the Chinese kinship experience. This emphasis on diversity challenges the classic ‘lineage paradigm’ of Chinese kinship and establishes a dialogue with contemporary anthropological debates about human kinship reflecting on the emergence of radically new family formations in the Euro-American context. Chinese Kinship will be of interest to anthropologists and sinologists, as to historians and social scientists in general.
Author : Fu Yuguang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1003132510
"Based on first-hand materials gathered through decades of field research and fleshed out with the author's insightful religious, cultural, and historical observations extending back to Qing Dynasty times, ancient archaeological discoveries and the legacy of Siberian peoples, this two-volume ethnological study investigates shamanic rituals, myths and lore in northern China and explores the common ideology underlying the origins of the region's cultures. Drawing from numerous oral myths, ancient documents and archaeological findings, this first volume discusses the spiritual world of northern Shamanism and investigates the various rituals, including ancestor worship, fertility, nature deities, blood sacrifice and rites, the worshiping of nature and shrines. The book illuminates how these rituals and worships, animism and ideas of the soul are imbedded in and interweave with the indigenous environment, culture and history of the clans and people of northern China. The book will be of great value for scholars of religion and anthropologists and ethnologists in the fields of Shamanism studies, Northeast Asian folklore and Manchu studies"--
Author : Grant Evans,Maria Tam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136796456
Hong Kong has become a by-word for all that is modern and sparkling in Asia today. Yet tourist brochures still play with the old cliche of Hong Kong as a place where 'East meets West'. Images of so-called 'traditional' China, junks sailing Victoria Harbour or old women praying to gods in smoky temples, mingle with those portraying Hong Kong as a consumer and business paradise. This collection of essays attempts to transcend the old polarities. It looks at modern Hong Kong in all its splendour and diversity in the run-up to its re-absorption into Greater China in mid-97, through the mediums of film, food, architecture, rumours and slang. It explores the question of a distinct, modern Chinese identity in Hong Kong, and even when it explores the traditional stamping ground of the older anthropology in the New Territories it finds a dramatically changed context, in particular for women. This collection presents an intriguing insight into the process of transition from 'tradition' to 'modernity' in this Modern Chinese Metropolis.
Author : Stephan Feuchtwang,Charlotte Bruckermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCLA:L0105073662
Introduction -- Anthropology of China : history, regionalism and comparison -- Kinship as ideology and as corporation -- Relatedness and gender -- Love, emotion and sentiment -- The exchange of money, gifts and favours -- The localization and globalization of food -- Nature, environment and activism -- Ritual and belief -- Hospitality -- The stranger king and the outside of an imperial civilisation -- The anthropology of the modern state in China -- Conclusion.
Author : Xiaotong Fei
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989-05-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226239608
This collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of China's huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, household industries such as production of raw silk were vital to the peasants' economic survival. His conclusions, long rejected by China's policymakers, have recently been embraced by the government under the political leadership of Deng Xiaopeng. Returning to Kaixian'gong in 1957 and again in the 1980s, Fei examined the changes that had occurred since his initial research. Three essays that resulted from these follow-up studies are included in this collection, providing a rare summary and analysis of developments in the village between 1936 and 1986. Also included here are four articles based on Fei's 1983-84 research in other areas of Jiangsu province. His explorations of the contrast between the wealth of southern Jiangsu and the long-standing poverty of the northern half of the province address key issues of public policy in China today. Useful to students of rural sociology as well as of Chinese history, politics, economics, and anthropology, this collection will provide an overview not only of developments in the small towns of China but also of Fei's thought.