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UNINA9910810795303321 |
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Autore |
Stafford Charles |
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Titolo |
Separation and reunion in modern China / / Charles Stafford [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000 |
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1-107-11997-9 |
1-280-42961-5 |
0-511-17278-8 |
0-511-01617-4 |
0-511-15164-0 |
0-511-31078-1 |
0-511-48893-9 |
0-511-05002-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Separation (Psychology) - China |
Reunions - China |
China Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (179-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgements -- Introduction: an anthropology of separation -- 1. Two festival of reunion -- 2. The etiquette of parting and return -- 3. Greeting and sending-off the dead -- 4. The ambivalent threshold -- 5. Commensality as reunion -- 6. Women and the obligation to return -- 7. Developing a sense of history -- 8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion -- 9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan -- Conclusion: the separation constraint -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this original and readable book, Charles Stafford describes the Chinese fascination with separation and reunion. Drawing on his field studies in Taiwan and mainland China, he gives a vivid account of raucous festivals of reunion, elaborate rituals for the sending-off of gods (and daughters), poetic moments of leave-takings between |
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