Burning Money : : The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld / / C. Fred Blake.
For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things-most often money-for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at time...
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Blake, C. Fred, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Burning Money : The Material Spirit of the Chinese Lifeworld / C. Fred Blake. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (272 p.) : 16 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Chiasm -- Chapter 2. Endless Scroll -- Chapter 3. Origins -- Chapter 4. Liturgy -- Chapter 5. Ideology -- Chapter 6. Sacrifice -- Chapter 7. Ghost Bills -- Chapter 8. Burlesque -- Chapter 9. Value -- A Postscript on the Grain of Sand -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things-most often money-for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as ever. Burning Money explores the cultural logic of this common practice while addressing larger anthropological questions concerning the nature of value. The heart of the work integrates Chinese and Western thought and analytics to develop a theoretical framework that the author calls a "materialist aesthetics." This includes consideration of how the burning of paper money meshes with other customs in China and around the world.The work examines the custom in contemporary everyday life, its origins in folklore and history, as well as its role in common rituals, in the social formations of dynastic and modern times, and as a "sacrifice" in the act of consecrating the paper money before burning it. Here the author suggests a great divide between the modern means of cultural reproduction through ideology and reification, with its emphasis on nature and realism, and previous pre-capitalist means through ritual and mystification, with its emphasis on authenticity. The final chapters consider how the burning money custom has survived its encounter with the modern global system and internet technology.Innovative and original in its interpretation of a common ritual in Chinese popular religion, Burning Money will be welcomed by scholars and students of Chinese religion as well as comparative religion specialists and anthropologists interested in contemporary social theory. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Rites and ceremonies China. Spirit money China. HISTORY / Asia / China. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110564143 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110663259 print 9780824835323 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824860103 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824860103 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824860103/original |
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