Alessandro Dell'Orto

Place and Spirit in Taiwan (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

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
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135790387
• Artikelnr.: 38404324

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Dell'Orto received his BA and PhD in Social Anthropology the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He also holds a BA in Religious Studies (ITS, Italy). For several years, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in Taiwan on Chinese popular religion. His main research interests, reflected in this book, pertain to the development of an ethnography and anthropology of place. He is currently a Researcher of the International Centre for Art and Culture (Parma, Italy) and Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Ethnology, Acadmeia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan).

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