Welcoming Dangerous Benefactors
Incense, Gods and Hospitality in North-Eastern Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3082405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephan Feuchtwang (London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Issue | 231-232 |
| Pages | 135-150 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-21 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | L Homme (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0439-4216 • E-ISSN: 1953-8103 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/lhomme.35561 |
| OpenAlex | W2990624081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Chinese festival ritual offers an extreme case of hospitality to outsider benefactors, to gods. They are invited outsiders. Their host is a territorial community of households represented by their divinely selected master of the god’s incense burner. Mediation to communicate with and separate from powerful guests is a courting of great power and avoiding its danger. Their welcome poses the danger of offence. To these points I add other sides and counterparts to rites of hospitality, such as rites of charitable feeding. I begin by arguing that the dangers of hospitality suggested by others in this volume are applicable in this case. Finally, I suggest how the terms in which I analyse these Chinese rites are applicable to other orders of hospitality
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Hospitality · Incense · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |