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Place and Spirit in Taiwan Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies and Memories of Everyday Life
By Alessandro Dell'Orto
Copyright 2002
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on field-work in Taiwan, this book examines the ancient, indigenous religious cult of Tudi Gong both as a religio-social phenomenon and as an appropriate medium for exploring and analysing the social changes that have been occurring in contemporary Taiwan, and the people's strategic adaptations to these changes. In this comprehensive ethnography of Tudi Gong, Dell'Orto engages in a... Read more
List of IllustrationsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. Telling stories about place1. Datong district2. Yongxing villagePart II. Writing place and the place of writing3. 'Siting' and 'sighting' textsPart III. Telling stories about Tudi Gong4. The 'territories' of Tudi Gong5. Fragments from 'popular tradition': telling stories and other representations of Tudi GongPart IV. Conclusion6. Retelling stories about place and Tudi Gong: retrospectives and prospectivesNotesSelected glossaryBibliographyIndex
Biography
Alessandro Dell'Orto teaches social anthropology and Chinese religions at the Urbaniana University, Rome, Italy. He is also the director of the Urbaniana University Centre for Chinese Studies.
