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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 562–565.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Rebecca S. Hall Contemporary Funeral Rituals of Sa'dan Toraja: From Aluk Todolo to “New” Religions . By Michaela Budiman . Prague : Karolinum Press , 2013 . 170 pp. ISBN: 9788024622286 (paper). Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China . Edited by Paul...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1269–1270.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Michelle T. King The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe . By Nicolas Standaert . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2008 . viii , 328 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 378–395.
Published: 01 May 1995
...Stephen F. Teiser Abstract The population of traditional china, from government officials to artisans and farmers, shared a wide range of religious practice and belief, including ancestor veneration, annual festivals, funeral rituals, exorcism of harmful forces, and procedures for the auspicious...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 February 2021
... Shanghai: Ritual, Governance, and Subject Formation in Urban China's Modern Funeral Industry.” PhD diss., Boston University . Moskowitz , Marc L. , dir. 2011 . Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan . Columbia, S.C. : Daunting Head Productions . Nedostup , Rebecca . 2017...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 379–380.
Published: 01 May 1989
... that the remarkable uniformity of Chinese funeral (not burial) ritual in late-traditional and modern times stems from a cultural imperative of orthopraxy. From the standpoint of both imperial authorities and ritual participants, the important thing about funeral ritual was not whether people believed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 154–156.
Published: 01 February 2024
... Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death investigates how powers, ideas, and practices in recent Chinese history shape funeral rituals in urban China. Specifically, Liu evaluates the resonance and dissonance between ritually constructed ideas of self and the normative structuring power of governance...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 380–381.
Published: 01 May 1989
... no meaning; even his own studies here and elsewhere are full of what funeral rituals mean. What Watson is saying is that a lot of people do not know what the rituals mean. Some people do; they are the elites, some of the specialists, the leaders, and not coincidentally the authors of the documentary accounts...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1251–1253.
Published: 01 November 2010
.... This far-ranging essay relates changes in the reception of this sutra to shifting family structures and gender identities. In chapter 6, Duncan Williams discusses the emergence in the Tokugawa period of the Sōtō Zen funeral, which served as the model for later Japanese Buddhist funeral rituals across...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 695–698.
Published: 01 November 2023
... an overview of the Chinese Communist Party's governance of funeral rituals and land use in cemeteries to show how its governance of mourning was both authoritarian and fragmented. Finally, in chapter 7, Kipnis describes the coexistence of secular and religious ideas of person and death in a discussion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (2): 377–379.
Published: 01 May 1989
... disputes. The first is laid out by the two editors. James Watson maintains that the remarkable uniformity of Chinese funeral (not burial) ritual in late-traditional and modern times stems from a cultural imperative of orthopraxy. From the standpoint of both imperial authorities and ritual participants...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 887–892.
Published: 01 November 2004
..., of their kinship ties. He concludes that commonly held land is the glue that holds the group together. ELLEN OXFELD s discussion of funeral rituals in a Chinese village that she calls Moonshadow Pond directly confronts the question of ritual persistence and innovation. She concludes that what characterizes all...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 35 (1): 31–47.
Published: 01 November 1975
... many of his Taipei jen depends on the observation of rituals. By rituals, I mean a practice or a pattern of behavior repeated in a prescribed manner. Understood in these terms, such a story as "State Funeral" could not have taken place anywhere other than in Jjoseph S. M. Lau is Associate Professor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (3): 485–509.
Published: 01 May 1982
... to such rituals. In the Nihonshoki version of the myth that describes the funeral of the god Ame no Wakahiko (previous quotation is its Kojiki version), birds are assigned various roles to serve in the funeral house. One of the birds, soni-dori (kingfisher) is given the role of mono rnasa which means "substitute...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1): 132–133.
Published: 01 February 1991
... from Stephen F. Teiser's history of the Ghost Festival) funeral rituals in contemporary Taiwan BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 133 and Fukien, based on anthropological fieldwork as well as textual analysis (reflecting the fact that the study of Chinese religion is better developed than...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 17–41.
Published: 01 February 2014
... funeral practices no longer make explicit reference to cremation. Yet they contain many gestures and texts that might be read as belonging to an older system of thinking about human remains as media for relations between humans and immaterial beings. Funeral rituals combine two complex assemblages...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2004) 63 (4): 961–990.
Published: 01 November 2004
.... The investigation of funerals in Moonshadow Pond in this article will be connected to broader issues in the study of death ritual in China. In this regard, I concentrate on two interrelated dichotomies that often appear in analyses of Chinese mourning practices: a contrast between a focus on historical continuity...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1988) 47 (2): 387–389.
Published: 01 May 1988
... and Kinship Structure in Korea" moves to the ethnographic present, demonstrating that what was once an instrument of policy became customary behavior. "Ancestor worship" is a ritual that organizes agnates, their resources, and their moral dispositions. C. Paul Dredge's "Korean Funerals: Ritual as Process...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1): 130–132.
Published: 01 February 1991
... functioned partly as exorcism rituals to control evil spirits. The other papers are not about Mu-lien opera per se, but (apart from Stephen F. Teiser's history of the Ghost Festival) funeral rituals in contemporary Taiwan ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (2): 394–395.
Published: 01 May 1991
..., many contributors implicitly or explicitly affirm the role of the government and officials in shaping popular culture. Helen Siu's study of recycling rituals old wedding and funeral rituals revived for new purposes, for example tells us that the local government in Guangdong "has played a part...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 1012–1013.
Published: 01 November 1990
... of Chinese in present-day Malaysia. He argues and may overstate that Baba acculturation to Malay language and custom was more selective than has often been thought by others, including non-Baba Chinese. Through detailed analyses of the Baba Malay dialect, kinship, and wedding and funeral rituals, he shows...
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