Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China, The Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries 9780791470732, 3893103104, 0791470733, 9780791480151, 0791480151, 9781435616691, 1435616693
Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only re
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English Pages 381 p Year 2007
Table of contents :
Introduction: The practice of the text --
Ritual manuals : exegetical hermeneutics and the re-embodiment of antiquity --
Wedding correspondence and nuptial songs : writing as cultural capital and text as ritual object --
Calendars, almanacs, miracle tales, and medical texts : cosmic cycles and the liminal affairs of man --
Legal codes, verdicts, and contracts : universal order and local practice --
Conclusion: Texts and tombs, ritual and history.
Introduction: The practice of the text --
Ritual manuals : exegetical hermeneutics and the re-embodiment of antiquity --
Wedding correspondence and nuptial songs : writing as cultural capital and text as ritual object --
Calendars, almanacs, miracle tales, and medical texts : cosmic cycles and the liminal affairs of man --
Legal codes, verdicts, and contracts : universal order and local practice --
Conclusion: Texts and tombs, ritual and history.
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