essay
The Thai Ti Kong festival
anthropology of Taiwanese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1981 • Pages: 397-425, 469-470
By: Martin, Emily.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay describes and interprets the significance of an annual pig-raising competition and festival held in honor of the god Co Su Kong by residents of San-hsia township, northern Taiwan. Ahern suggests that Taiwanese use these events to mark their 'ethnic' distinctiveness in contrast to the political regime dominated by mainlanders. The festival further serves local interests and provides a channel for local social mobility and prestige.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Domesticated animals
- Miscellaneous government activities
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- Ethnozoology
- 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.
- 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
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1975
- 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)
- San-hsia, Taipei hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emily Martin Ahern
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese