P Steven Sangren
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 16518 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P Steven Sangren |
| PRENOMES | P Steven |
| SOBRENOME | Sangren |
| ASSINATURA | SANGREN P S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cornell University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 396 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Chinese Sociologics
Filial Obsessions
Fate and Transcendence in the Rhetoric of Myth and Ritual
Filial Obsessions
Spirit Possession, Family Issues, and the Revelation of Gods’ Biographies
Women as Outsiders
Ontologies, ideologies, desire
One would be hard-pressed to argue that Chinese ontologies closely parallel psychoanalysis in this regard, although arguably Buddhism's recognition that desire is the font of human suffering might constitute a candidate. In any case, my more recent work approaches Chinese patriliny from the vantage of desire. This work is motivated in part by dissatisfaction with both native exegesis and anthropological treatments of patriliny. By "Chinese patril…
TheChinese family as instituted fantasy
This article revisits well-travelled ethnographic portrayals of traditionalChinese family dynamics to draw attention to desire as a product of family life and to how crucial elements of family organization and ideology can be understood, in turn, as effects of desire - that is, as instituted fantasies. Although my case in point is theChinese family, the analysis addresses the category 'family' cross-culturally. In any of its variations, the 'fami…
Fate, Agency, and the Economy of Desire in Chinese Ritual and Society
For many Western observers, Chinese religion and cosmology appear rife with contradictions, among them the recurrent motif in litera- ture and myth of preordination or fate, on the one hand, and a relentless attempt, through ritual means, to discern, control, or change fate, on the other. This article argues that the obsession with fate and luck is best comprehended with reference to desire understood as a human universal. Underlying one's hope t…
Masculine Domination
This article reprises 1970s discussions of gender inequality in feminist anthropology to critique contemporary assumptions regarding gender construction, advocating a psycho-cultural explanation for the ubiquity of masculine domination. The currency of what I term 'culturalist empiricism', in its emphasis on cultural difference, downplays inquiry into human commonalities with respect to gender and entails questionable assumptions regarding how cu…
Anthropology of anthropology
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
Anthropology and Identity Politics in Taiwan
I initially drafted this chapter subsequent to a conference on "Economy and Society in Southeastern China," East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2–3 October 1993. The conference presentations of Murray Rubinstein and Kenneth Dean set me thinking, both about the issues their papers raise regarding the processes of what might be termed "identity construction" and about the ways identity issues have emerged, more broadly in China studies and elsew…
The Roads of Chinese Childhood
The Lineage-Village Complex in Southeastern China
"Power" against Ideology
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Power and transcendence in the Ma Tsu pilgrimages of Taiwan
By prescribing travel outside pilgrims' native communities, the Ma Tsu pilgrimages of Taiwan define the sources of socially productive power as transcendent to both the individual and the community. In this article, pilgrimage ritual and rhetoric are shown to constitute a multifaceted set of mutually authenticating representations of the self-productive power of various institutions and culturally constructed selves. The most encompassing horizon…
Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography
Dialectics of Alienation
This article analyzes religious activities of private worship and public testimony in Taiwan as processes of social and self production. Durkheimian understandings of the genesis and efficacy of collective representations are enhanced by a Marxian appreciation of alienation. 'Alienation' here applies to representations of productive power that invert the real productive relations between producer and product so that the product appears to produce…
Understanding Peasant China
History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community
Ethnography Without Tears [with Comments and Reply]
Dialectics in comparative sociology
Sociology
Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography
Ethnography Without Tears [with Comments and Reply]
Between Belief and Transgression
Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols
Traditional Chinese Corporations
Emphasis on descent and kinship in analysis of traditional Chinese corporations, a legacy of structural-functional theory, mistakes the analyst's theoretical categories for native culture. In this paper, the author attempts to sort out some of the resulting conceptual muddles, and he proposes a more rigorous analytical framework for discussing the range of organizational variation in traditional Chinese corporations. Analysis of ten representativ…
Power and transcendence in the Ma Tsu pilgrimages of Taiwan
By prescribing travel outside pilgrims' native communities, the Ma Tsu pilgrimages of Taiwan define the sources of socially productive power as transcendent to both the individual and the community. In this article, pilgrimage ritual and rhetoric are shown to constitute a multifaceted set of mutually authenticating representations of the self-productive power of various institutions and culturally constructed selves. The most encompassing horizon…
"Power" against Ideology
TheChinese family as instituted fantasy
This article revisits well-travelled ethnographic portrayals of traditionalChinese family dynamics to draw attention to desire as a product of family life and to how crucial elements of family organization and ideology can be understood, in turn, as effects of desire - that is, as instituted fantasies. Although my case in point is theChinese family, the analysis addresses the category 'family' cross-culturally. In any of its variations, the 'fami…
Working Daughters of Hong Kong
History and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy
Worshippers of the goddess Ma Tsu constitute Taiwan's most encompassing ritual community. The cult's close association with Taiwanese history and cultural identity is well known to Sinological anthropologists. Every year pilgrimage groups (usually organized by local territorial cults) converge on cult centers at Pei-kang, Hsin-kang, Chang-hua, Lu-kang, T'u-ch'eng, and Tainan, among others (see Figure 1). These centers compete actively for cult su…
The Lineage-Village Complex in Southeastern China
Anthropology of anthropology
Dialectics of Alienation
This article analyzes religious activities of private worship and public testimony in Taiwan as processes of social and self production. Durkheimian understandings of the genesis and efficacy of collective representations are enhanced by a Marxian appreciation of alienation. 'Alienation' here applies to representations of productive power that invert the real productive relations between producer and product so that the product appears to produce…
Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and the Structure of Value in Chinese Rituals
Chinese religion is inseparable from the entire spectrum of discourses and texts (including, in addition to written and printed texts, all kinds of rituals, shamanism, architecture, economic transactions, knowledge, even daily conversation) through which meaning is produced, reproduced, and fought for, and in which individuals create themselves socially and (which amounts to the same thing) society socializes individuals. The meaning generated in…
Masculine Domination
This article reprises 1970s discussions of gender inequality in feminist anthropology to critique contemporary assumptions regarding gender construction, advocating a psycho-cultural explanation for the ubiquity of masculine domination. The currency of what I term 'culturalist empiricism', in its emphasis on cultural difference, downplays inquiry into human commonalities with respect to gender and entails questionable assumptions regarding how cu…
History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community
Sociology
Social Space and the Periodization of Economic History
Case studies in local economic history and organization conventionally employ either of two rhetorical strategies. In the first, a particular world view, theoretical orientation, or set of basic categories is assumed and forms the basis for organizing a description of a particular case; in the second, the facts or data are marshaled in an attempt to validate, authenticate, or test an explicitly stated theoretical position. Of course, these are id…
Recent Studies in Chinese Kinship
Chinese Family and Kinship. Hugh Baker.The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China. Elisabeth Croll.Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945. Arthur P. Wolf and Chieh-shan Huang
Recent Studies in Chinese Kinship
Chinese Family and Kinship. Hugh Baker.The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China. Elisabeth Croll.Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945. Arthur P. Wolf and Chieh-shan Huang
Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols
Between Belief and Transgression
Working Daughters of Hong Kong
Traditional Chinese Corporations
Emphasis on descent and kinship in analysis of traditional Chinese corporations, a legacy of structural-functional theory, mistakes the analyst's theoretical categories for native culture. In this paper, the author attempts to sort out some of the resulting conceptual muddles, and he proposes a more rigorous analytical framework for discussing the range of organizational variation in traditional Chinese corporations. Analysis of ten representativ…
Social Space and the Periodization of Economic History
Case studies in local economic history and organization conventionally employ either of two rhetorical strategies. In the first, a particular world view, theoretical orientation, or set of basic categories is assumed and forms the basis for organizing a description of a particular case; in the second, the facts or data are marshaled in an attempt to validate, authenticate, or test an explicitly stated theoretical position. Of course, these are id…
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and the Structure of Value in Chinese Rituals
Chinese religion is inseparable from the entire spectrum of discourses and texts (including, in addition to written and printed texts, all kinds of rituals, shamanism, architecture, economic transactions, knowledge, even daily conversation) through which meaning is produced, reproduced, and fought for, and in which individuals create themselves socially and (which amounts to the same thing) society socializes individuals. The meaning generated in…
Sociology
Sociology
History and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy
Worshippers of the goddess Ma Tsu constitute Taiwan's most encompassing ritual community. The cult's close association with Taiwanese history and cultural identity is well known to Sinological anthropologists. Every year pilgrimage groups (usually organized by local territorial cults) converge on cult centers at Pei-kang, Hsin-kang, Chang-hua, Lu-kang, T'u-ch'eng, and Tainan, among others (see Figure 1). These centers compete actively for cult su…
Ethnography Without Tears [with Comments and Reply]
Dialectics in comparative sociology
History and Magical Power in a Chinese Community
Dialectics of Alienation
This article analyzes religious activities of private worship and public testimony in Taiwan as processes of social and self production. Durkheimian understandings of the genesis and efficacy of collective representations are enhanced by a Marxian appreciation of alienation. 'Alienation' here applies to representations of productive power that invert the real productive relations between producer and product so that the product appears to produce…
Understanding Peasant China
Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography
Social/Cultural Anthropology
Power and transcendence in the Ma Tsu pilgrimages of Taiwan
By prescribing travel outside pilgrims' native communities, the Ma Tsu pilgrimages of Taiwan define the sources of socially productive power as transcendent to both the individual and the community. In this article, pilgrimage ritual and rhetoric are shown to constitute a multifaceted set of mutually authenticating representations of the self-productive power of various institutions and culturally constructed selves. The most encompassing horizon…
"Power" against Ideology
The Lineage-Village Complex in Southeastern China
The Roads of Chinese Childhood
Anthropology and Identity Politics in Taiwan
I initially drafted this chapter subsequent to a conference on "Economy and Society in Southeastern China," East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2–3 October 1993. The conference presentations of Murray Rubinstein and Kenneth Dean set me thinking, both about the issues their papers raise regarding the processes of what might be termed "identity construction" and about the ways identity issues have emerged, more broadly in China studies and elsew…
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
Anthropology of anthropology
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