Emperor and Ancestor - State and Lineage in South China (Hardcover)

This book summarizes twenty years of the author's work in historical anthropology and documents his argument that in China, ritual provided the social glue that law provided in the West. The book offers a readable history of the special lineage institutions for which south China has been noted and argues that these institutions fostered the mechanisms that enabled south China to be absorbed into the imperial Chinese state--first, by introducing rituals that were acceptable to the state, and second, by providing mechanisms that made group ownership of property feasible and hence made it possible to pool capital for land reclamation projects important to the state. Just as taxation, defense, and recognition came together with the emergence of powerful lineages in the sixteenth century, their disintegration in the late nineteenth century signaled the beginnings of a new Chinese state.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	David Faure
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-5318-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-5318-0
Barcode:	9780804753180

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