essay
Gods, ghosts, and ancestors
Religion and ritual in Chinese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 131-182, 356-357
By: Wolf, Arthur P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of Taiwanese peasant religion as depicted from native concepts and practices associated with the hierarchy of gods, beliefs about ghosts, and the ever-present ancestor worship. Data were gathered intermittently between 1957 and 1970 from general observations and informants, and deal primarily with Taipei Hsien, with particular emphasis on the villages of San-hsia, Shu-lin and Hsia-ch'i-chou (the site of the author's first field work in the area).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Cult of the dead
- General character of religion
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Avoidance and taboo
- Revelation and divination
- Congregations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1983
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1957-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Taipei Hsien, Shu-lin and San-hsia (p. 132) among others - a general region in Taipei Hsien
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arthur P. Wolf
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-357)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73089863
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ancestor Worship--Taiwan/Religion--Taiwan