Separation and reunion in modern China

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Huvudupphovsman: Stafford, Charles
Institutionell upphovsman: ebrary, Inc
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: an anthropology of separation
  • 1. Two festival of reunion
  • 2. The etiquette of parting and return
  • 3. Greeting and sending-off the dead
  • 4. The ambivalent threshold
  • 5. Commensality as reunion
  • 6. Women and the obligation to return
  • 7. Developing a sense of history
  • 8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion
  • 9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan
  • Conclusion: the separation constraint
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.