essay
The ancestors at home: domestic worship in a land-poor Taiwanese village
Ancestors • The Hague • Published In 1976 • Pages: 373-385
By: Harrell, Stevan.
Abstract
This essay describes the management of ancestor cults in a village where lineages and substantial inheritable wealth are absent.
- Subjects
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Community structure
- Cult of the dead
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- culture
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- J. A. Simpson; John Beierle
- Field Date
- 1972-1973
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Ploughshare (Lei-ci-be) village, Taipei hsien, Hai-shan region, Taiwan
- Notes
- C. Stevan Harrell
- Includes bibliography
- LCSH
- Taiwanese