英文摘要:This paper is the first documentation that discusses the structural meanings of the worship of lineage segment gods in Huian in Fujian and Lugang in Taiwan. Description and analysis focuses on three central ethnographic findings. First, shifting senses of locality occur in lineage segment ancestor worship and god worship. Second, ritual practice links lineage segment gods with village temple ritual and thereby to the village as a whole. Third, these localized lineage gods served as the symbolic means whereby lineage segment and local group ideology were mediated during immigration to Taiwan. Thus, this paper indeed finds that lineage segments are organized around lineage ancestor worship, while ritual shperes, belief shpheres, and neighborhood temples are organized around the worship of local gods. The extent ethnographic literature on Han society in Fujian and Taiwan already contains an extensive literature relevant to the worship of lineage ancestors and local gods. But problematically, that literature treats these two sides of community life as if they were mutually exclusive. Local knowledge and ritual practice in Huian in Fujian and Lugang in Taiwan suggest, however, that the worship of lineage ancestors and local gods co-occur, interlock, and compliment one another. The paper's conclusion is that treating the two sides of community life as but two parts to a more inclusive whole recovers their underlying unity. The key to recovering that underlying unity is to understand how each part has a distinctive, but related, sense of locality and associated ritual acts.
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主要出版者:中央研究院民族學研究所
出版地:臺北市
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出版日期:2000-06
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語文:中文
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全集/系列類型:期刊刊名
全集/系列名稱:中央研究院民族學研究所集刊
全集/系列類型:期刊英文刊名
全集/系列名稱:Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology Academia Sinica