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Chinese sociologics : an anthropological account of the role of alienation in social reproduction / P. Steven Sangren.

By: Series: London School of Economics monographs on social anthropology ; v. 72.Publication details: London : Athlone, 2000.Description: xiii, 328 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0485195720
  • 9780485195729
  • 0485196727 (pbk.)
  • 9780485196726 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.0951 21
LOC classification:
  • GN490 .M6 2000
Contents:
Introduction -- Why 'culture'? Why 'production'? -- History and the rhetoric of legitimacy: the Mazu cult of Taiwan -- Dialectics of alienation: individuals and collectivities in Chinese religion -- Power and transcendence in the Mazu pilgrimages of Taiwan -- 'Power' against ideology: a critique of Foucaultian usage -- Women's production: gender and exploitation in patrilineal mode -- Fathers and sons in a patrilineal mode of production of desire: preliminary analysis of the story of nezha from Fengshen Yanyi -- Afterword: 'excess', change and the limits of analysis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Why 'culture'? Why 'production'? -- History and the rhetoric of legitimacy: the Mazu cult of Taiwan -- Dialectics of alienation: individuals and collectivities in Chinese religion -- Power and transcendence in the Mazu pilgrimages of Taiwan -- 'Power' against ideology: a critique of Foucaultian usage -- Women's production: gender and exploitation in patrilineal mode -- Fathers and sons in a patrilineal mode of production of desire: preliminary analysis of the story of nezha from Fengshen Yanyi -- Afterword: 'excess', change and the limits of analysis.

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