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Chinese Ancestor Worship: A Practice and Ritual Oriented Approach to Understanding Chinese Culture

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By (author): William Lakos

This book is a new approach to how we in the West understand China and Chinese culture. It challenges the master narrative of Confucianism and shows that ancestor worship has underpinned Chinese culture in many influential and vital ways and provides a nuanced and more efficacious paradigm through which Chinese culture may be viewed.It is an exposition and analysis of Chinese ancestor worship and its correlations, especially filial piety and ritual, and it shows the intrinsic importance of ancestor worship to Chinese culture. By using a practice theoryritualand communication theory approach this work highlights the relationship between the rituals of ancestor worship and their meaning within Chinese culture. In emphasizing the efficacy of ritual to cultural meaning it also questions and compares the master narrative of Confucianism in its role as the prime cultural symbol and paradigm of Chinese culture. China and Chinese culture is conventionally understood by the West through the paradigm and its articulated discourse of Confucianism. In order to ameliorate and overcome the epistemological problematic of a cross-cultural understanding of China, a new approach to the understanding of China and Chinese culture is proposed. The thesis approach is meta-disciplinary and multi-viewed, and draws on a range of evidence and theories which focus on the problematic of cross-cultural understanding. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Sep 2010
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781443824958

About William Lakos

Although an Honorary Research Associate with the School of Asian Languages and Studies at the University of Tasmania William Lakos considers himself to be an independent research scholar. Over the past decade he has regularly conducted field studies in India China and South East Asia and he has presented research papers at International forums.

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