Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era
The Dao among the Miao?
Series: Academia Sinica on East Asia;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 May 2023
- ISBN 9781032066448
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages250 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 Illustrations, black & white; 15 Halftones, black & white; 1 Line drawings, black & white; 5 Tables, black & white 466
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Short description:
This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history.
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This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history.
Combining historical and ethnographic methodologies, chapters in this book are structured around changes that occurred during the interaction between Miao ritual traditions and religions such as Daoism, with particular focus on the commonalities and differences seen between Western Hunan and other areas of Southwest China. In addition, investigation is made into how gender and ethnicity have shaped such processes, and what these phenomena can teach about larger questions of modern Chinese history. As such, this study transcends existing scholarship on Western Hunan – which has stressed the impact of state policies and elite agendas – by focusing instead on the roles played by ritual specialists. Such findings call into question conventional wisdom about the ‘standardization’ of Chinese culture, as well as the integration of local society into the state by means of written texts.
Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era will prove valuable to students and scholars of history, ethnography, anthropology, ethnic studies, and Asian studies more broadly.
This book stands out for Katz’s utter mastery of secondary literature on religion in Hunan and the Southwest, his use of Western Hunan as a case study to challenge existing models of Chinese religion, and his keen attention to processes of religious transformation through the theoretical innovations of reverberation and trans-hybridity.
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, USA
Table of Contents:
1. Western Hunan: An Overview 2. Temple Cults 3. Ritual Specialists 4. Ritual Violence and the Judicial Continuum: 5. Female Mediums and Rites of Resistance 6. The Incense Dancing Festival 7. Repaying a Nuo Vow
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