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Abstract / Summary

This book is a product of over ten years of work. It addresses intermarriage circles, transformations of customs, the rise and fall supernatural forces, power relations among gods, ghosts and people in "synchronic communities," and tongxiangtongye (same hometown, same industry) economies based on rural sociocultural networks in the author's native Sun Village in Putian. The author explores the details of microhistory by examining changes and continuities in everyday life to show the grand through the minute. This exciting book possesses important theoretical significance, including reflections on binary frameworks such as state vs. society and tradition vs. modernity or revolution, along with new arguments about commonly used concepts such as "the cultural nexus of power" and "the hollowing-out of the rural."

Field of Interest

Religion & Thought

Author

Wu Chongqing, fl. 2016

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2017 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands

Content Type

General reference book

Duration

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Format

Text

Page Count

328

Publication Year

2017

Publisher

Brill (Publisher)

Place Published / Released

Leiden, South Holland

Subject

Religion & Thought, Social Sciences, Central Myths, Belief Systems, الأساطيرالأساسية, Mythes centrale, Mythes fondateurs, Zentral Mythen, Gründungsmythen, מיתוסים מרכזיים, Mitos Centrais, Mitos Fundamentales, Systèmes de croyances, النظم العقائدية, Glaubenssysteme, מערכות אמונה, Sistema de Creencias, Sistema de Crenças, Putian, Fujian Province, Taoist, Popular Superstition, Marriage, Family & Human Sexuality, Popular Devotions, Belief, Chinese

Translator

Matthew A. Hale, fl. 2017

Series / Program

The Social Sciences of Practice

Keywords and Translated Subjects

الأساطيرالأساسية, Mythes centrale, Mythes fondateurs, Zentral Mythen, Gründungsmythen, מיתוסים מרכזיים, Mitos Centrais, Mitos Fundamentales, Systèmes de croyances, النظم العقائدية, Glaubenssysteme, מערכות אמונה, Sistema de Creencias, Sistema de Crenças