The Flow Of Gifts
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The Flow Of Gifts
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Author : Yunxiang Yan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Flow Of Gifts written by Yunxiang Yan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Social Science categories.
In this study, the author examines the gift-giving and related social activities that pervade daily life in China, focusing on routine activities.
Burning Money
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Author : C. Fred Blake
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2011-09-30
Burning Money written by C. Fred Blake and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-30 with History categories.
For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as ever. Burning Money explores the cultural logic of this common practice while addressing larger anthropological questions concerning the nature of value. The heart of the work integrates Chinese and Western thought and analytics to develop a theoretical framework that the author calls a “materialist aesthetics.” This includes consideration of how the burning of paper money meshes with other customs in China and around the world. The work examines the custom in contemporary everyday life, its origins in folklore and history, as well as its role in common rituals, in the social formations of dynastic and modern times, and as a “sacrifice” in the act of consecrating the paper money before burning it. Here the author suggests a great divide between the modern means of cultural reproduction through ideology and reification, with its emphasis on nature and realism, and previous pre-capitalist means through ritual and mystification, with its emphasis on authenticity. The final chapters consider how the burning money custom has survived its encounter with the modern global system and internet technology. Innovative and original in its interpretation of a common ritual in Chinese popular religion, Burning Money will be welcomed by scholars and students of Chinese religion as well as comparative religion specialists and anthropologists interested in contemporary social theory.
Rethinking God As Gift
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Author : Robyn Horner
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2001
Rethinking God As Gift written by Robyn Horner and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Electronic books categories.
At once rigorous, insightful, and accessible.. the most thorough study yet available on the phenomenological treatment of God as gift in Marion and Derrida. Invaluable reading for those concerned with the theological promise of contemporary Continental philosophy.-Thomas A. Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Friendship Love And Brotherhood In Medieval Northern Europe C 1000 1200
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Author : Lars Hermanson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Friendship Love And Brotherhood In Medieval Northern Europe C 1000 1200 written by Lars Hermanson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with History categories.
In this book Lars Hermanson discusses how religious beliefs and norms steered attitudes to friendship and love, and how these ways of thinking also affected people’s social identity and political action behaviour in medieval Northern Europe, c. 1000-1200.
White Saris And Sweet Mangoes
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Author : Sarah Lamb
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-06-22
White Saris And Sweet Mangoes written by Sarah Lamb and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-22 with Social Science categories.
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have been hampered, the book argues, by a static focus on youth. Lamb's own experiences in the village are an integral part of her book and ably convey the cultural particularities of rural Bengali life and Bengali notions of modernity. In exploring ideals of family life and the intricate interrelationships between and within generations, she enables us to understand how people in the village construct, and deconstruct, their lives. At the same time her study extends beyond India to contemporary attitudes about aging in the United States. This accessible and engaging book is about deeply human issues and will appeal not only to specialists in South Asian culture, but to anyone interested in families, aging, gender, religion, and the body.
Experiencing God In The Gospel Of John
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Author : Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B.
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
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Experiencing God In The Gospel Of John written by Francis J. Moloney, S.D.B. and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Religion categories.
A theological study on the Gospel of John that is strongly determined by contemporary biblical scholarship.
People S Republic Of China Volumes I And Ii
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Author : Frank N. Pieke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-10
People S Republic Of China Volumes I And Ii written by Frank N. Pieke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Social Science categories.
This title was first published in 2002. This two volume set collects in a conveniently accessible form the most influential articles by leading authorities in the study of China. It provides an international reference work, combined with an authoritative introduction by the editor.
The Politics Of Interests
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Author : Mark P Petracca
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-19
The Politics Of Interests written by Mark P Petracca and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with Political Science categories.
This is a thematically unified survey of current and significant issues affecting interest group politics and scholarship in the USA. Petracca has drawn together interest group scholars and practitioners to write 16 original essays dedicated to making the best and newest research accessable to students at all levels. The mix of perspectives and approaches aims to offer a stimulating analysis of contemporary American interest group activity.
Worldly Stage
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Author : Sophie Volpp
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-23
Worldly Stage written by Sophie Volpp and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites, and notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. In this study of late-imperial Chinese theater, Sophie Volpp offers fresh readings of major texts such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) and Kong Shangren’s Peach Blossom Fan (Taohua shan), and unveils lesser-known materials such as Wang Jide’s play The Male Queen (Nan wanghou). In doing so, Volpp sheds new light on the capacity of seventeenth-century drama to comment on the cultural politics of the age.Worldly Stage arrives at a conception of theatricality particular to the classical Chinese theater and informed by historical stage practices. The transience of worldly phenomena and the vanity of reputation had long informed the Chinese conception of theatricality. But in the seventeenth century, these notions acquired a new verbalization, as theatrical models of spectatorship were now applied to the contemporary urban social spectacle in which the theater itself was deeply implicated."
The Socialness Of Things
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Author : Stephen H. Riggins
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-10-25
The Socialness Of Things written by Stephen H. Riggins and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-25 with Social Science categories.
