Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448 ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gold titles on light red cloth, 268 pages including bibliography, character list and index plus 10 pages of introductory material.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448 ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448 ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448 ISBN 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: 0804713448 ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448 ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This book is a case study of history and culture in the Taiwanese town of Ta-ch\'i and the group of rural villages that constitute its standard marketing community. However, its scope exceeds that of most community studies. The author attempts to construct a holistic view of Chinese culture from an analysis of the relationship between history and ritual in a particular locality.The author argues that social institutions and collective representations are dialectically connected in the process of social and cultural reproduction. He describes this dialectical process through an analysis of the key cultural concept of ling, the magical power attributed to ghosts, gods, and ancestors. In analyzing the symbolic logic of ling, he asserts that it can be fully understood only as a product of the reproduction of social institutions 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 idiom of ling underlies Taiwanese constructions of history and identity and how the cultural construction of history dialectically reproduces society and creates history. The book is illustrated with 8 pages of photographs, 17 line drawings, and 9 maps.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448 ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.
Published by Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 0804713448 ISBN 13: 9780804713443
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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.