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Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, U.S.A., 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, apparently unread copy in jacket with just the slightest sunning to spine.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not Ex-Library or remaindered. No Writing in text, slight wear to edges and cover. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
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8vo. pp x, 268. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine. ISBN: 0804713448 May show some very slight shelf wear but content fine and unread. Excellent condition.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 8.9 X 6.2 X 1.0 inches; 268 pages.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by U.S.A.: Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448ISBN 13: 9780804713443
Seller: Ethnographics, Georgetown, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 8vo red cloth, gilt titles, Pages are clean, crisp and bright with tight binding. Dust jacket has light rubbing to covers, light sun-fading to the spine, unread NF/vgdj: xii+268pp, index, bibl, chinchar list; BLURB: This book is a case study of history and culture in the Taiwanese town of T a-ch'i [Daqi near Taipei] and the group of rural villages that constitute its standard marketing community. However, its scope exceeds that of most community studies. Th e author attempts to construct a holistic view of Chinese culture from an a nalysis of the relationship between history and ritual in a particular loca lity. The author argues that social institutions and collective representations a re dialectically connected in the process of social and cultural reproducti on. He describes this dialectical process through an analysis of the key cu ltural concept of ling, the magical power attributed to ghosts, gods, and a ncestors. In analyzing the symbolic logic of ling, he asserts that it can b e fully understood only as a product of the reproduction of social institut ions and as a manifestation of a native historical consciousness. Structuralist and Marxist insights are combined to explain how ling is best understood as both a cultural logic of symbolic relations and a material logic of social relations. The book is in three parts. Part I is a social and economic history that outlines what one might call an objectivist or positivist view of Ta-ch'i's history, describing events as they were, regardless of the perceptions of local participants. This material is a background to the synchronic sociological analysis of local territorial cults that constitutes Part II. In Part III, the author unsettles the objectivist assumptions of Part I by showing how the concept of LING underlies Taiwanese constructions of identity.