essay
Aspects of ancestor worship in northern Taiwan
Ancestors • The Hague • Published In 1976 • Pages: 339-364
By: Wolf, Arthur P..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay discusses the relationships among lineage affiliation, ancestor worship, possession and location of the ancestor tablets which are used in worship, and inheritance.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Inheritance
- Mode of marriage
- Lineages
- Cult of the dead
- Sacred objects and places
- 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
- J. A. Simpson; John Beierle
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1957-1960, 1968, 1970
- 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 chen, Taipei hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arthur P. Wolf
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese