Avron Boretz
Biographic Data
| ID | 182980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avron Boretz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avron |
| FAMILY NAME | Boretz |
| SIGNATURE | BORETZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society
Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society
Demon warrior puppets, sword-wielding Taoist priests, spirit mediums lacerating their bodies with spikes and blades—these are among the most dramatic images in Chinese religion. Usually linked to the propitiation of plague gods and the worship of popular military deities, such ritual practices have an obvious but previously unexamined kinship with the traditional Chinese martial arts. The long and durable history of martial arts iconography and r…
Place and Spirit in Taiwan: Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies and Memories of Everyday Life. Alessandro Dell'Orto
Righteous Brothers and Demon Slayers: Subjectivities and Collective Identities in Taiwanese Temple Processions
Perhaps no aspect of Taiwanese folk religion is as generally popular, or as controversial as the processions of temple devotees, costumed performance troupes, and entranced spirit mediums that mark the climax of periodic competitive community festivals (shenming saihui). Long denigrated as “wasteful” (langfei) and “superstitious” (mixin) by government officials and government-supported scholars who criticized large-scale community worship and pro…
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Louisa Schein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ix. 365 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Martial Gods and Magic Swords: Identity, Myth, and Violence in Chinese Popular Religion
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Louisa Schein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ix. 365 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Martial Gods and Magic Swords: Identity, Myth, and Violence in Chinese Popular Religion
Martial Gods and Magic Swords: Identity, Myth, and Violence in Chinese Popular Religion
Righteous Brothers and Demon Slayers: Subjectivities and Collective Identities in Taiwanese Temple Processions
Perhaps no aspect of Taiwanese folk religion is as generally popular, or as controversial as the processions of temple devotees, costumed performance troupes, and entranced spirit mediums that mark the climax of periodic competitive community festivals (shenming saihui). Long denigrated as “wasteful” (langfei) and “superstitious” (mixin) by government officials and government-supported scholars who criticized large-scale community worship and pro…
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Louisa Schein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. ix. 365 pp., illustrations, photographs, notes, bibliography, index
Place and Spirit in Taiwan: Tudi Gong in the Stories, Strategies and Memories of Everyday Life. Alessandro Dell'Orto
Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society
Demon warrior puppets, sword-wielding Taoist priests, spirit mediums lacerating their bodies with spikes and blades—these are among the most dramatic images in Chinese religion. Usually linked to the propitiation of plague gods and the worship of popular military deities, such ritual practices have an obvious but previously unexamined kinship with the traditional Chinese martial arts. The long and durable history of martial arts iconography and r…
Gods, Ghosts, and Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts, and Masculinity on the Margins of Chinese Society
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)