Chinese Ritual and Politics
(Book #34 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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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, and draws important conclusions from this...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521040906
ISBN13:9780521040907
Release Date:September 2007
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.54 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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