Book
Belief and unbelief in a Taiwan village
Xerox University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1983 • Pages:
By: Harrell, Stevan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The purpose of this work is to examine belief and unbelief in the folk religion of Lei-ci-be (Ploughshare) village. Harrell discusses the history and social organization of the village, the practice of religion in the village, the methods and concepts employed in the study, the range of belief and unbelief, credibility of religious tenets, a typology of believers, religious belief and life experience, and belief and participation in religious practices.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Extended families
- Community structure
- Inter-community relations
- Towns
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Burial practices and funerals
- General character of religion
- Revelation and divination
- 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
- Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1973
- 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)
- Ploughshare (Lei-ci-be) village, Taipei hsien, Hai-Shan region, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Clyde Stevan Harrell
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - Stanford University, 1974
- UM 75-6860
- Data on belief and unbelief will be found in General Character of Religion ( 771)
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese