Readings in the Religious and Ethical Traditions of Northeast Asia: Under the ancestors' shadow; : kinship, personality, and social mobility in China,
Hsu, Francis L. K.
Readings in the Religious and Ethical Traditions of Northeast Asia: Under the ancestors' shadow; : kinship, personality, and social mobility in China, - Stanford, Calif Stanford University Press 1971 [©1967] - xii, 370 pages illustrations 23 cm
1. Introduction
2. Yin Chai and Yang Chai: worldly and other-worldly residences
Graveyards
Family shrines and clan temples
3. Life and work under the ancestral roof
Relationship in the family home
Livelihood activities
4. Continuing the incense smoke
Mating
Weddings
Matrilocal marriage
Remarriage and concubinage
5. Propagation of the ancestral line
6. How ancestors live
World of Spirits
Man's relation with spiritual worlds
Death and funerals
Death away from home
7. Communion with ancestors
Pilgrimage to graveyards
Ancestor festivals
Communal worship
8. Introduction to the ancestral ways
Birth and care of infants
Education objectives
Methods of education
School and scholarship
9. Ancestors' shadow
Penumbra
10 Culture and personality
Authority and competition
Basic personality configuration
11. Wider China
12. Postscript: Kinship, personalty and social mobility in China
Appendices : 1. The distribution of living quarters in three households
2. Cases of concubinage
3. Size and distribution of households
4. A study of family prominence
5. More evidence on social mobility in China
9780804707671, 9780804707688, 0804707677, 0804707685
Ancestor worship Ancestor worship China China China Social conditions China Social life and customs Chine Moeurs et coutumes Chine Mœurs et coutumes Kinship China History Manners and customs Morts Culte Chine Social structure China West Town, China
915.103 HSU / 02991
Readings in the Religious and Ethical Traditions of Northeast Asia: Under the ancestors' shadow; : kinship, personality, and social mobility in China, - Stanford, Calif Stanford University Press 1971 [©1967] - xii, 370 pages illustrations 23 cm
1. Introduction
2. Yin Chai and Yang Chai: worldly and other-worldly residences
Graveyards
Family shrines and clan temples
3. Life and work under the ancestral roof
Relationship in the family home
Livelihood activities
4. Continuing the incense smoke
Mating
Weddings
Matrilocal marriage
Remarriage and concubinage
5. Propagation of the ancestral line
6. How ancestors live
World of Spirits
Man's relation with spiritual worlds
Death and funerals
Death away from home
7. Communion with ancestors
Pilgrimage to graveyards
Ancestor festivals
Communal worship
8. Introduction to the ancestral ways
Birth and care of infants
Education objectives
Methods of education
School and scholarship
9. Ancestors' shadow
Penumbra
10 Culture and personality
Authority and competition
Basic personality configuration
11. Wider China
12. Postscript: Kinship, personalty and social mobility in China
Appendices : 1. The distribution of living quarters in three households
2. Cases of concubinage
3. Size and distribution of households
4. A study of family prominence
5. More evidence on social mobility in China
9780804707671, 9780804707688, 0804707677, 0804707685
Ancestor worship Ancestor worship China China China Social conditions China Social life and customs Chine Moeurs et coutumes Chine Mœurs et coutumes Kinship China History Manners and customs Morts Culte Chine Social structure China West Town, China
915.103 HSU / 02991