Chinese Ritual and Politics (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Chinese Ritual and Politics (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology) Book

As a result of the strength and dominance of the centralized state, ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this. She argues that forms of control attempted ritually on non-human persons (gods and other spirits) in China parallel those forms of control which people regard as effective in ordinary life, namely political control.Read More

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  • 0521040906
  • 9780521040907
  • Emily Martin Ahern
  • 17 September 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 160
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