Under the ancestors' shadow
Subtitle: Chinese culture and personality
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Ancestor worship; China -- Social life and customs; West Town (China)
Notes: An anthropologicla study of a small semi-rural community in southwest China
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction.; title: A point of methodology; title: The field; title: 2. Yin Chai and Yang Chai : worldly and other-worldly residences.; title: Graveyards; title: Family shrines and clan temples; title: 3. Life and work under the ancestral roof.; title: Relationship in the family home; title: Livelihood activities; title: 4. Continuing the incense smoke.; title: Preferred and disfavored types of mating; title: Betrothals and weddings; title: Matrilocal marriage; title: Remarriage and concubinage; title: 5. Propagation of the ancestral line.; title: The big-family ideal; title: Division under the same roof; title: The clan and its solidarity; title: 6. How ancestors live.; title: The world of spirits; title: Man's relation with spiritual worlds; title: Death and funerals; title: Death away from home; title: 7. Communion with ancestors.; title: Pilgrimage to graveyards; title: Ancestor festivals; title: Communal worship; title: 8. Introduction to the ancestral ways.; title: Birth and care of infants; title: Educational objectives; title: Methods of education; title: School and scholarship; title: 9. The ancestors' shadow.; title: Safety valves; title: In the Penumbra; title: 10. Culture and personality.; title: Authority and competition; title: The basic personality configuration; title: Status personality configuration; title: 11. Wider China; title: Appendices.; title: The distribution of living quarters in three households; title: Cases of concubinage; title: Size and distribution of households; title: A study of family prominence