Book
Temple organization in a Chinese village
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1983 • Pages:
By: Seaman, Gary.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation explores the connection between religious ideology and political activity by focussing on the development of a 'spirit writing cult' in a central Taiwanese village called Pearl Mountain. Seaman argues that the cult provides the motivation for villagers to undertake certain sorts of activities which its ideology defines as meritorious but which also have definite political functions. The time period covered is from the end of the Japanese occupation in 1945 until the conclusion of the author's field research in 1973.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Political parties
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Congregations
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1945-1973
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pearl Mountain village in Puli, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gary Worth Seaman
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cornell University, 1974
- UM 74-26,314
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese