essay
The written memorial in Taoist ceremonies
Religion and ritual in Chinese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 309-324
By: Schipper, Kristofer Marinus.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay presents the text and textural analysis of a written prayer which accompanied services marking a collective Great Communal Sacrifice in the village of A-lien. Schipper considers such texts a hallmark of Taoist, rather than Buddhist, practice, and traces their historical and literary relation to the great liturgical tradition of China. The functions of Taoist priests are also discussed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Ritual
- 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
- 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
- M. A. Marcus; Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969
- 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)
- A-lien village, Kao-hsiung hsien (p. 312-313), Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kristofer M. Schipper
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese