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02984aam a2200301I 4500 001 1BDD447AAED411E1BB28B5CE6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20120605010202 008 100928s2010 enk b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2010671744 020 $a 144382495X 020 $a 9781443824958 035 $a (OCoLC)666718215 040 $a YDXCP $c YDXCP $d SILO $d CDX $d DLC $d UKMGB $d FDA $d SILO 100 1 $a Lakos, William. 245 1 $a Chinese ancestor worship : $b a practice and ritual oriented approach to understanding Chinese culture / $c by William Lakos. 246 30 $a Practice and ritual oriented approach to understanding Chinese culture 260 $a Newcastle upon Tyne : $b Cambridge Scholars Publishing, $c 2010 300 $a viii, 147 p. ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a 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 theory--ritual--and 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'--Publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-144) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : a new approach to understanding Chinese culture -- Watching the ancestors -- Mind-ing the ancestors -- Living with the ancestors : filial piety -- Two concepts of ritual and two understandings of li -- Challenging the master narrative : Confucianism-as-Chinese-culture -- Conclusion and consequences. 650 0 $a Ancestor worship $z China. 650 0 $a Religion and culture $z China. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lakos, William. $t Chinese ancestor worship. $d Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars publishing, 2010 $w (OCoLC)764508879 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180116030027.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1BDD447AAED411E1BB28B5CE6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search