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- catalog abstract ""One part of Taiwan's flourishing religious culture is the elaborate, colorful, and noisy procession of local gods accompanied by troupes of musicians and dancers. Among them are groups of performers with wild, outlandish painted faces portraying underworld generals who serve the gods and punish the living. Through their performances, these troupes claim to exorcise harmful forces from the community." "In conducting fieldwork among these troupes, the author confronted the question of making sense of their claims to a long history when all evidence indicated that the troupes had been insignificant until the 1970s and of their assertions of devotion to an accurate transmission of tradition given the diversity of performances. By concentrating on the stylistic variations in performances, he explains the troupes as organizations shaped by the "market forces" of supply and demand in the culture of religious festivals. By focusing on performances as the nexus of market and art, he shows how bodily performance is the site where religious statements are made and the power of the gods made visible."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Exorcistic performers and Chinese religion in twentieth-century Taiwan".
- catalog contributor b12984193.
- catalog coverage "Taiwan Religion.".
- catalog coverage "Taiwan Religious life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Taiwan Social life and customs 1975-".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""One part of Taiwan's flourishing religious culture is the elaborate, colorful, and noisy procession of local gods accompanied by troupes of musicians and dancers. Among them are groups of performers with wild, outlandish painted faces portraying underworld generals who serve the gods and punish the living. Through their performances, these troupes claim to exorcise harmful forces from the community." "In conducting fieldwork among these troupes, the author confronted the question of making sense of their claims to a long history when all evidence indicated that the troupes had been insignificant until the 1970s and of their assertions of devotion to an accurate transmission of tradition given the diversity of performances. By concentrating on the stylistic variations in performances, he explains the troupes as organizations shaped by the "market forces" of supply and demand in the culture of religious festivals. By focusing on performances as the nexus of market and art, he shows how bodily performance is the site where religious statements are made and the power of the gods made visible."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Spaces: sacred, ritualized, and everyday landscapes -- 2. Places: nine troupes in their local settings -- 3. Meanings: iconography and mythology -- 4. Rituals: the making of divine warriors -- 5. Choreography: cosmic variations -- 6. History I: from the five emperors of Fuzhou to the five school under Japanese rule (1646-1947) -- 7. History II: a new market for dancers and self-mortifiers under the Guomindang (1947-87) -- 8. Conclusions: festival performers and their changing audience.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-393) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 418 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0674010973 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard East Asian monographs ; 218".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center ; Distributed by Harvard University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Taiwan Religion.".
- catalog spatial "Taiwan Religious life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Taiwan Social life and customs 1975-".
- catalog spatial "Taiwan.".
- catalog subject "299/.51/0951249 21".
- catalog subject "BL1975 .S85 2003".
- catalog subject "Religion and culture Taiwan.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Spaces: sacred, ritualized, and everyday landscapes -- 2. Places: nine troupes in their local settings -- 3. Meanings: iconography and mythology -- 4. Rituals: the making of divine warriors -- 5. Choreography: cosmic variations -- 6. History I: from the five emperors of Fuzhou to the five school under Japanese rule (1646-1947) -- 7. History II: a new market for dancers and self-mortifiers under the Guomindang (1947-87) -- 8. Conclusions: festival performers and their changing audience.".
- catalog title "Exorcistic performers and Chinese religion in twentieth-century Taiwan".
- catalog title "Steps of perfection : exorcistic performers and Chinese religion in twentieth-century Taiwan / Donald S. Sutton.".
- catalog type "text".