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Separation and reunion in modern China / Charles Stafford
by Stafford, Charles
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- ISBN 10
- 0521784344
- ISBN 13
- 9780521784344
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed. Physical description: viii, 202 pages. Contents:Acknowledgements -- Introduction: an anthropology of separation -- 1. Two festival of reunion -- 2. The etiquette of parting and return -- 3. Greeting and sending-off the dead -- 4. The ambivalent threshold -- 5. Commensality as reunion -- 6. Women and the obligation to return -- 7. Developing a sense of history -- 8. Classical narratives of separation and reunion -- 9. The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan -- Conclusion: the separation constraint -- Notes -- References -- Index. Subjects: Kinship Taiwan Psychological aspects. Kinship Taiwan Religious aspects. Ethnology China. Separation (Psychology) China.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd.
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- Title
- Separation and reunion in modern China / Charles Stafford
- Author
- Stafford, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0521784344
- ISBN 13
- 9780521784344
- Publisher
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 2000
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