1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790813103321

Titolo

Ancestors / / editor, William H. Newell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague : , : Mouton, , 1976

ISBN

3-11-080531-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 pages) : illustrations

Collana

World Anthropology

Classificazione

LB 40000

Altri autori (Persone)

NewellWilliam H <1922-> (William Hare)

Soggetti

Ancestor worship

Ancestor worship - Japan

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

An introductory commentary / by Meyer Fortes -- Good and bad ancestors / by William H. Newell -- Who are the "ancestors" in Japan? : a 1963 census of memorial tablets / by Robert J. Smith -- A structural analysis of Japanese ancestral rites and beliefs / by Herman Ooms -- Optional cult group affiliation among the Puyuma and Miyako islanders ; A note on ancestor worship in "cognatic" societies / by Toichi Mabuchi -- "Family religion" in Japan : Ie and its religious faith ; Recent trends in studies of ancestor worship in Japan / by Choshu Takeda -- Ancestor worship in Japan : facts and history / by Takashi Maeda -- Ancestors and nobility in ancient Japan / by Richard J. Miller -- Dōzoku and ancestor worship in Japan / by Shoji Yonemura -- The malevolent ancestor : ancestral influence in a Japanese religious sect / by Karen Kerner -- Ancestral influence on the suffering of descendents in a Japanese cult / by Takie Sugiyama Lebra -- A note on the enshrinement of ancestral tablets at Zamami Island, Okinawa / by Makio Matsuzono -- Ancestral memorialism : a comparison of Jews and Japanese / by Howard Wimberley and Joel Savishinsky -- Characteristic features of Ewe ancestor worship / by D.K. Fiawoo -- Ancestorcide! : are African ancestors dead? / by Victor C. Uchendu -- Youth as elders and infants as ancestors : the complementarity of alternate generations, both living and dead, in Tiriki, Kenya and Irigwe, Nigeria / by Walter H. Sangree -- Ancestors, geomancy, and mediums in Taiwan / by G. Seaman -- Prophylactic medicine and kin units among Yao ancestor worshipers /



by Douglas Miles -- Chinese geomancy and ancestor worship : a further discussion / by Yih-yuan Li -- Aspects of ancestor worship in northern Taiwan / by Arthur P. Wolf -- Ancestors proper and peripheral / by Sung-hsing Wang -- The ancestors at home : domestic worship in a land-poor Taiwanese village / by C. Stevan Harrell.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783056003321

Autore

Fregoso Rosa Linda

Titolo

MeXicana encounters [[electronic resource] ] : the making of social identities on the borderlands / / Rosa Linda Fregoso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-76296-6

0-520-93728-7

9786612762963

1-59734-746-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

American crossroads ; ; 12

Disciplina

305.48/868720721

Soggetti

Mexican American women - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions

Women - Mexican-American Border Region - Social conditions

Women in popular culture - Mexican-American Border Region

Women in motion pictures

Mexican American women - Ethnic identity

Group identity - Mexican-American Border Region

Popular culture - Mexican-American Border Region

Mexican-American Border Region Civilization

Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions

Mexican-American Border Region Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Toward A Planetary Civil Society -- 2. Cross-Border Feminist Solidarities -- 3. Gender, Multiculturalism, And The



Missionary Position On The Borderlands -- 4. The Chicano Familia Romance -- 5. Familia Matters -- 6. "Fantasy Heritage": Tracking Latina Bloodlines -- 7. Haunted By Miscegenation -- 8. Ghosts Of A Mexican Past -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.