History and magical power in a Chinese community

作者：P.StevenSangren

出版社：StanfordUniversityPress

出版年：1987-10

页数：280

定价：$65.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780804713443

内容简介
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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.

作者简介
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P. Steven Sangren is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at Cornell University, USA. His work focuses on Chinese culture and society―especially gender, religion, and mythic narrative.

目录
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Introduction

Part I：An Objectivist Perspective

1、Ta-ch’i

2、Local History in Spatial Context

Part II：The Ritual Construction of Social Space

3、Taiwanese "Folk Religion"

4、Territorial Cults and Pilgrimages

5、Ritual Action

6、Local Ritual，Economic， and Administrative Systems

Part III：Efficacy，Legitimacy， and the Structure of Value

7、Yin and Yang： Disorder and Order

8、The Power of Supernatural Spirits

9、Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy

10、Pilgrimages and Social Identity

11、The Social Construction of Power

Conclusion

Bibliography

Character List

Index

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田野点是桃园大溪，导师武雅士和施坚雅。桑高仁想修正施坚雅建立在经济关系上的市场论，立足于仪式对社会关系的再生产，提出阴/阳作为秩序感序或阶序性关系的本质体现，表明传统中国社会存在着一种共通的整体新的文化逻辑（也就是后来他所强调的Chineseness）。而帝国政治制度立足于统治阶层的德行，从而赋予他统合整个社会的责任与地位。道德性与灵验感则最终在阴阳的宇宙秩序观里寻求到一致性，也就是中国人对秩序的…

读的还比较认真，看懂了个大概！

时代特征明显，但大于自身的时代。Levi-Strauss, 两个Turner，Practice，Skinner和Wolf的中国人类学传统，甚至还看找到Bateson这类的影响，倒是作者本人后来显著的Marxism, Piagetism和Freudism难觅其宗。估计会是相当好的理论史教材。

很……玄妙的样子

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