Book
Gods, ghosts, and ancestors: the folk religion of a Taiwanese village
University of California Press • Berkeley • Published In 1972 • Pages:
By: Jordan, David K..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph addresses the general problem of the relation between conceptual categories, here identified as 'religious' cultural constructs, and social action in a southwestern Taiwanese village setting. Jordan provides very rich data on villager's notions of supernatural beings and their methods of divination. The book's focus is on the ritual activities of family units rather than on that of descent groups, since Jordan views the latter as of more ideological than sociological significance in terms of actual social life and behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Special unions and marriages
- Towns
- Cult of the dead
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Revelation and divination
- Magicians and diviners
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- EvaluationIn this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- Ethnologist-5
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Bao-an' village, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- David K. Jordan
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70149945
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese