essay
Chinese geomancy and ancestor worship: a further discussion
Ancestors • The Hague • Published In 1976 • Pages: 329-338
By: Li, Yih-yuan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this essay, Li argues that Chinese ancestor cults do not render the ancestors, as former dominators of the worshipers, passive. Rather, Li asserts, the supposed satisfactions and dissatisfactions are keenly felt, and reflect domestic conditions among the living.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cult of the dead
- Eschatology
- Revelation and divination
- 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
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971
- 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)
- Nan-tou hsien; She-liau village of Chu-shan chen, Sung-pei-Keng village of Ming-chien hsiang, Taiwan (p. 330)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Yih-yuan Li
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese