Ancestor Worship

Ancestor Worship - ritualized propitiation and invocation of dead kin. Ancestor worship is based on the belief that the spirits of the dead continue to dwell in the natural world and have the power to influence the fortune and fate of the living. Ancestor worship has been found in various parts of the world and in diverse cultures. It was a minor cult among the Romans (see manes). The practice Read More...

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The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Vol. 1 (1913)
by J. G. Frazer. 495 pgs.

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Preface

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Lecture I Introduction

Lecture II: The Savage Conception of Death

Lecture III: Myths of the Origin of Death

Lecture IV: The Belief in Immortality Among The Aborigines of Central Australia

Lecture V: The Belief in Immortality Among the Aborigines Of Central Australia (continued)

Lecture VI: The Belief in Immortality Among the Other Aborigines of Australia

Lecture VII: The Belief in Immortality Among the Aborigines Of Australia (concluded)

Lecture VIII: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of the Torres Straits Islands

Lecture IX: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of British New Guinea

Lecture X: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of German New Guinea

Lecture XI: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of German New Guinea (continued)

Lecture XII: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of German New Guinea (continued)

Lecture XIII: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of German New Guinea (continued)

Lecture XV: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of Southern Melanesia (new Caledonia)

Lecture XVI: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of Central Melanesia

Lecture XVII: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of Central Melanesia (concluded)

Lecture XVIII: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of Northern and Eastern Melanesia

Lecture XIX: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of Eastern Melanesia (fiji)

Lecture XX: The Belief in Immortality Among the Natives Of Eastern Melanesia (fiji) (conclueled)

Note: Myth of the Continuance of Death

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The Universality of Ancestor Worship, in Ethnology
by Lyle B. Steadman, Craig T. Palmer, Christopher F. Tilley. 13 pgs.

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Lineage Organization in Southeastern China (Chap. 11 "Ancestor Worship and Lineage Structure")
by Maurice Freedman. 156 pgs.

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1: Village and Lineage in Fukien and Kwangtung

2: The Economic Basis of Village Life

3: Family and Household

4: The Hierarchy of Agnatic Units

5: Mourning Grades

6: The Segmentary System

7: Social Differentiation Within the Lineage

8: The Distribution of Power Within the Lineage

9: Political Power and Economic Control

10: Ritual Differentiation

12: Voluntary Associations

13: Relations Between and Across Lineages

14: The Lineage Vis-ὰ-Vis the State

15: Discussion

List of Works Cited

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London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology
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Chinese Overseas: Comparative Cultural Issues ("Chinese Religion and the Chinese Ethnological Field" begins on p. 15)
by Tan Chee-Beng. 260 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Chinese Ethnological Field: Anthropological Studies of Chinese Communities Worldwide

2: Acculturation, Ethnicity and Ethnic Chinese

3: Chinese Migration, Localization and the Production of Baba Culture

4: Chinese Identities in Malaysia

5: Ethnic Chinese: Language, Nationality and Identity

6: Ethnic Chinese and Ethnic Relations: Some Economic Explanations

7: Culture and Economic Performance with Special Reference to the Chinese in Southeast Asia

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Americans and Chinese: Passage to Differences ("Ancestor Worship" begins on p. 248)
by Francis L. K. Hsu. 538 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Prologue: Culture and Behavior

Part One: In Search of Origin

Introduction to Part One

Chapter 1: Mirrors of Life

Chapter 2: The Sexes

Chapter 3: The Beginnings of Contrast

Chapter 4: Where Europe Ends and America Begins

Part Two: Men, Gods, and Things

Introduction to Part Two

Chapter 5: Marriage and Class

Chapter 6: Success and the Hero

Chapter 7: Two Attitudes toward Government

Chapter 8: The Ills of Government

Chapter 9: Two Kinds of Religion

Chapter 10: The Bases of Religious Faith

Chapter 11: Two Approaches to Economic Life

Chapter 12: Industrial Failure and Economic Strife

Part Three: Dilemma

Introduction to Part Three

Chapter 13: American Problems

Chapter 14: Chinese Weaknesses

Chapter 15: China under Communism

Chapter 16: World Unrest: Communism and America

Epilogue: Purpose and Fulfillment

A Brief Chronology of China and the West

Name Index

Subject Index
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Macau: A Cultural Janus ("Ancestor Worship and Chinese Reactions to Christianity" begins on p. 62)
by Christina Miu Bing Cheng. 238 pgs.

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

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An Anomaly in Colonization and Decolonization

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City of the Name of God of Macau in China, There is None More Loyal'

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The Rendezvous of a Virgin Trio

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Colonial Stereotypes, Transgressive Punishment and Cultural Anthropophagy

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Midway Sojourners, Macanese Moments and Stoical Settlers

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Conclusion

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Ancestor Worship and Korean Society
by Dawnhee Yim Janelli. 228 pgs.

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Introduction

1: The Twisŏngdwi Lineage

2: Families of the Twisŏngdwi Lineage

5: Lineage Rituals

6: Shamans and Ancestors

7: Ancestor Cults in East Asia Compared

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Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits: Women in Korean Ritual Life
by Laurel Kendall. 234 pgs.

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One: A kut for the Chŏn Family

Two: Confucian Patriarchs and Spirited Women

Three: Enduring Pine Village

Four: Divine Connections: The Mansin and Her Clients

Five: Wood Imps, Ghosts, and Other Noxious Influences

Six: The Care and Feeding of Household Gods and Kindred Spirits

Seven: The Care and Feeding of Ancestors

Eight: Women's Rites

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The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints, and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia
by Henri Chambert-Loir, Anthony Reid. 243 pgs.

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"A collection of studies by leading scholars of Indonesian culture, history and anthropology examining the death practices and rituals of Indonesian tribal groups in the context of ongoing changes is Islam."

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1: Castrated Dead: the Making of Un-Ancestors Among the Aoheng, and Some Considerations on Death and Ancestors in Borneo

2: How to Hold a Tiwah: the Potency of the Dead and Deathways Among Ngaju Dayaks

3: Witnessing the Creation of Ancestors in Laboya (west Sumba, Eastern Indonesia)

4: Reciprocity, Death and the Regeneration of Life and Plants in Nusa Penida (bali)

5: Remembering Our Dead: the Care of the Ancestors in Tana Toraja

6: Island of the Dead. Why Do Bataks Erect Tugu?

7: Modernising Sacred Sites in South Sumatra: Islamisation of Gumai Ancestral Places

8: Ancestors' Blood: Genealogical Memory, Genealogical Amnesia and Hierarchy Among the Bugis

9: Saints and Ancestors: the Cult of Muslim Saints in Java

10: The Tembayat Hill: Clergy and Royal Power in Central Java from the 15th to the 17th Century

11: Interpreting the Historical Significance of Tombs and Chronicles in Contemporary Java

12: The Role of a Javanese Burial Ground in Local Government

13: ‘National Ancestors’: the Ritual Construction of Nationhood

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Haunting the Buddha: Indian Popular Religions and the Formation of Buddhism ("Ancestor Worship in Contemporary Practice" begins on p. 87)
by Robert DeCaroli. 230 pgs.

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1: Coming to Terms

2: Making Believers

3: Set in Stone

4: Ghost Stories

5: The Politics of Enlightenment

6: Policing the Monastery

7: Passage from India

8: Confronting Their Demons

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Ancestor Worship and Identity: Ritual, Interpretation, and Social Normalization in the Malaysian Chinese Community, in SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
by Ian Clarke. 22 pgs.

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The Heathens: Primitive Man and His Religions (Chap. 11 "Ancestor Worship")
by William Howells. 302 pgs.

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1: Religion, Primitive and Civilized

2: The Nature of Religion

3: Mana and Tabu: A Force and A Danger

4: Magic, Black and White

5: Divination: the Future in the Present

6: Disease and Medicine

7: Witchcraft: Evil in Human Form

8: The Shaman, A Siberian Spiritualist

9: Another World

10: Souls, Ghosts, and Death

11: Ancestor Worship

12: Totemism, A Primitive Philosophy

13: Demons

14: Gods

15: The Art of Worship

16: The Rise and Fall of A Religion

17: Origins and Conclusions

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Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power and Migration on Changing Identities (Discussion of ancestor worship begins on p. 192)
by Melissa J. Brown. 333 pgs.

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"In this eye opening book, Melissa Brown shines an illuminating light on the divisive political issues now facing China and Taiwan as both struggle over how Taiwan's future will be decided. If identity has profoundly and rapidly changed in Taiwan over the past fifteen years, as she persuasively argues, extraordinary skill, patience, and luck will be needed on both sides if a mutually acceptable political settlement is ever to become a reality."--Ramon H. Myers, Senior Fellow and Consultant to Hoover Archives, Hoover Institution at Stanford.

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Chapter 1: Culture, Identity, and the “taiwan Problem”

Chapter 2: Reinstating Plains Aborigines in Taiwan's History

Chapter 3: Culture, Colonial Intervention, and Long-Route Identity Change

Chapter 4: Ancestry, Governmental Power, and Short-Route Identity Change

Chapter 5: Forced Migrations, Identity Changes, and State Classification in Hubei

Chapter 6: Understanding Past Choices and Future Options

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