Alessandro Dell'Orto

Place and Spirit in Taiwan

Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies and Memories of Everyday Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on field-work in Taiwan, this book examines the cult of Tudi Gong both as a religio-social phenomenon and as an appropriate medium for exploring and analysing the social changes that have been occurring in contemporary Taiwan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415861618
• ISBN-10: 0415861616
• Artikelnr.: 37324464

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Dell'Orto teaches social anthropology and Chinese religions at the Urbaniana University, Rome, Italy. He is also the director of the Urbaniana University Centre for Chinese Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of IllustrationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I.
Telling stories about place1. Datong district2. Yongxing villagePart II.
Writing place and the place of writing3. 'Siting' and 'sighting' textsPart
III. Telling stories about Tudi Gong4. The 'territories' of Tudi Gong5.
Fragments from 'popular tradition': telling stories and other
representations of Tudi GongPart IV. Conclusion6. Retelling stories about
place and Tudi Gong: retrospectives and prospectivesNotesSelected
glossaryBibliographyIndex