Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China
(Book #315 in the Harvard East Asian Monographs Series)
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This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described in this book were their supreme collective achievements and were carried...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674033043
ISBN13:9780674033047
Release Date:March 2010
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:450 Pages
Weight:1.54 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.7" x 9.3"
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