Chang‐kwo Tan
Biographic Data
| ID | 628294 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chang‐kwo Tan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chang‐kwo |
| FAMILY NAME | Tan |
| SIGNATURE | TAN C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Academia Sinica Taiwan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tradition and Christianity: Controversial Funerals and Concepts of the Person among the Paiwan, Taiwan
This essay focuses on the complex and dynamic relationships between tradition and Christianity among the Paiwan, an Austronesian‐speaking people in Taiwan. The ethnography comes from a village in which adherents of traditional religion and Presbyterians live in the same area, but in separate quarters. They have close kinship and marriage ties; however, the funeral constitutes a major area of controversy and tension. I juxtapose their contrasting …
Syncretic Objects: Material Culture of Syncretism among the Paiwan Catholics, Taiwan
This article is concerned with the material support and expression of religious syncretism. A wooden carving, ‘The Paiwan Cross’, in an aboriginal Catholic Church of Taiwan, is the focus of my analysis. This carving, characteristic of the mixture of traditional imagery and Christian imagery, is a historical product of local Catholics’ path towards syncretism. I thus consider it as a ‘syncretic object’. By examining the historical and social proce…
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Syncretic Objects: Material Culture of Syncretism among the Paiwan Catholics, Taiwan
This article is concerned with the material support and expression of religious syncretism. A wooden carving, ‘The Paiwan Cross’, in an aboriginal Catholic Church of Taiwan, is the focus of my analysis. This carving, characteristic of the mixture of traditional imagery and Christian imagery, is a historical product of local Catholics’ path towards syncretism. I thus consider it as a ‘syncretic object’. By examining the historical and social proce…
Tradition and Christianity: Controversial Funerals and Concepts of the Person among the Paiwan, Taiwan
This essay focuses on the complex and dynamic relationships between tradition and Christianity among the Paiwan, an Austronesian‐speaking people in Taiwan. The ethnography comes from a village in which adherents of traditional religion and Presbyterians live in the same area, but in separate quarters. They have close kinship and marriage ties; however, the funeral constitutes a major area of controversy and tension. I juxtapose their contrasting …
Anthropology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Carving (1 works) · Christianity (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)