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Chinese Ritual and Politics: 34 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 34) - Softcover

Book 17 of 95: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Ahern, Emily Martin

 
9780521040907: Chinese Ritual and Politics: 34 (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 34)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521040906 ISBN 13: 9780521040907
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this.

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Book Description

As a result of the strength and dominance of the centralized state, ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this. She argues that forms of control attempted ritually on non-human persons (gods and other spirits) in China parallel those forms of control which people regard as effective in ordinary life, namely political control.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521040906
ISBN 13 
9780521040907
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160