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This is a view of Chinese religion from the Taoist perspective,
derived from fieldwork in Taiwan, Hong Kong and the People's
Republic of China. The book is based on the Taoist hypothesis that
all Chinese rites of passage and festivals are structured by the
Yin-Yang five element cosmology. Buddhist and Taoist meditations of
emptying, marriage, birthing, initiation, burial, ancestor rituals
and the annual festivals are described through the eyes of the
experts called on to serve family and village needs. The work ends
with a view of religion in the People's Republic of China during a
period of renewal and restoration.
Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social,
cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison
between the two especially productive. This volume is the first
in-depth work to do just that: it situates the ethnography of the
two areas within a comparative framework and examines the
relationship between indigenous systems of knowledge and "place" --
an issue of growing concern to anthropologists. The essays
demonstrate the manner in which regimes of restricted knowledge
serve to protect and augment cultural property and the
proprietorship over sites and territory; how myths evolve to
explain and culturally appropriate important events pertaining to
contact between indigenous and Western societies; how graphic
designs and other culturally important iconic and iconographic
processes provide conduits of cross-cultural appropriation between
indigenous and non-indigenous societies in today's multicultural
nation states.
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