Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: an anthropology of separation
- 1 Two festivals of reunion
- 2 The etiquette of parting and return
- 3 Greeting and sending-off the dead
- 4 The ambivalent threshold
- 5 Commensality as reunion
- 6 Women and the obligation to return
- 7 Developing a sense of history
- 8 Classical narratives of separation and reunion
- 9 The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan
- Conclusion: the separation constraint
- Notes
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: an anthropology of separation
- 1 Two festivals of reunion
- 2 The etiquette of parting and return
- 3 Greeting and sending-off the dead
- 4 The ambivalent threshold
- 5 Commensality as reunion
- 6 Women and the obligation to return
- 7 Developing a sense of history
- 8 Classical narratives of separation and reunion
- 9 The politics of separation and reunion in China and Taiwan
- Conclusion: the separation constraint
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- Separation and Reunion in Modern China , pp. 200 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000