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ISBN:
9780511586347
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 97
Content:
Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with other villagers, visit the altars of 'divining children' and participate in 'dangerous' god-strengthening rituals. In particular they learn about the family-based cycle of reciprocity, and the tension between this and commitment to the nation. Charles Stafford's 1995 study of childhood in this community (with additional material from north-eastern mainland China) explores absorbing issues related to nurturance, education, family, kinship and society in its analysis of how children learn, or do not learn, to identify themselves as both familial and Chinese
Content:
1. Two roads -- 2. Ghosts are not connexions -- 3. The proper way of being a person -- 4. Textbook mothers and frugal children -- 5. Red envelopes and the cycle of yang -- 6. Going forward bravely -- 7. Divining children -- 8. Dangerous rituals -- 9. Conclusion -- 10. Notes on childhood in northeastern China
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521465748
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521026567
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521465748
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511586347
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