essay
Taiwanese architecture and the supernatural
Religion and ritual in Chinese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 183-192, 357
By: Wang, Sung-hsing.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this essay Wang examines the physical aspects and religious significance of the three major classes of Taiwanese places of worship, the MIAO (temple), SAN-MIEN-PI (shrine), and CHENG-T'ING (ritual center of the house which contains the domestic altar), and claims that these express a fundamental division of Taiwanese supernatural beings into three categories, which are briefly enumerated.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Residence
- Household
- Extended families
- Cult of the dead
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Congregations
- 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
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- David Sherwood ; Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- 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)
- Chang-hua hsien, Taipei hsien, Kuei-shan Island, and Chia-i hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sung-hsing Wang
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese