AuthorStafford, Charles
TitleSeparation and reunion in modern China / Charles Stafford
Imprint Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000
Descript viii, 202 p. ; 24 cm

CONTENT

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


SUBJECT

  1. China -- Social life and customs
  2. Separation (Psychology) -- China
  3. Reunions -- China

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Arts LibraryDS721 S779S 2000 CHECK SHELVES