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The Cult of the Dead in a Chinese Village $20.26 Emily M. Ahern Book Taiwan is a country of great ethnic diversity; Chinese society is a subject of great complexity. This study deals primarily with Ch’inan, a village in northern Taiwan whose residents belong to one ethnic group: Hokkien-speaking Chinese whose ancestors made the journey from the southeast coast of mainland China over 200 years ago. The deals almost exclusively with one aspect of life in that village: the related complex of institutions associated with the care and management of the dead. That is, I have not attempted anything like a complete, well-rounded ethnography, but have tried to concentrate on those aspects of community organization that most influence the form of the ancestral cult: the internal organization of the lineage communities in the village and their relationship to each other in the larger community of Ch’inan. In Part 1, I describe the history of Ch’inan and how the village is organized today, providing necessary background for understanding the way the form of the community affects the cult of the dead. To this end, several kinds of material are presented. I have used historical records, both those kept by the villagers and those written by outsiders, and including not only records intended for posterity, like lineage genealogies, but also such things as lists of contributors to community projects posted on the walls of temples and ancestral halls, which reflect the life of the time. To these I add my own observations of incidents that involved part or all of the community and the dynamics that they revealed. Finally, I give the villagers’ view of the community and how it came to be as it is. In the first four chapters of Part 2, I look at the sociological correlates of ancestor worship in ancestral halls or before domestic altars. This is where the influence of the shape of the community on the form of the cult can be most clearly seen. In addition, some aspects of worshiping ancestral tablets lead into a different area of concern: the villagers’ conception of the reciprocal obligations and duties of the living and the dead and what effect their expectations have on the way the ancestors are worshiped. In Chapters 10-13, I turn to the darker side of the ancestor worship, in which the dead stand out as dangerous creatures capable of harming and frightening the living. An attempt is made to account for the malevolent character of the ancestors in a cross-cultural context, and by means of a local myth, to present the villagers’ own view of the nature of the ancestors. Finally, I try to show in the most graphic way possible how people think of the dead in the underworld by recounting at length one man’s visit to his ancestors there under trance. In the concluding chapter, the Ch’inan case is subordinated and placed in a wider perspective. First, it is compared to a nearby community with a quite different historical development. Here it is possible to see how ritual acts and objects take slightly different forms under different conditions. Then, taking Ch’inan as but one particular case among many, often very different, cases in mainland China and other parts of Taiwan, I seek answers in other Chinese communities to some of the major questions I raised for Ch’inan: how the form of the community affects the cult of the ancestors; how different reciprocal obligations between the living and the dead affect ancestor worship; what determines the malevolence or benevolence of the ancestors; in what ways people react to the obligations of ancestor worship. In this undertaking, my purpose is to suggest tentatively what conditions would lead to different answers to these questions and what series of related traits would be most likely to be found together in a single Chinese community. The Ong Settlement 17 Hai-a , te-li , li chang The Other Settlements 40 Lou settlement , te-li , antivenom Within the Circle of Bamboo 62 Tho-te-kong temple , Ch'i , four settlements Some Parameters of the Lineage System 75 alogy , common lands , ancestor worship Ancestral Halls 91 agnates , kitchen god , Hakka Ancestral Tablets 116 marriage , domestic tablets , apical ancestor Missing Tablets 139 ancestral tablets , lineage , missing tablet Worshiping the Dead 149 line of property , obligation to worship , second fang Worship at the Grave 163 dry food , geomancer , Taoist The Geomancy of the Grave 175 mancer , hong-cui , azure dragon ia Ancestral Interference 191 geomancers , underworld , Goody's The Underworld 220 iong world , Kim-ci , im world Outside the Circle of Bamboo 245 kitchen god , Chulun , lineages References 269 Index 275 This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original. Trolley.jpg Paul Jones image Scoop.jpg Paul Jones image Sacks.jpg Paul Jones image Machinery 2.jpg Paul Jones image

Machinery 1.jpg Paul Jones image Coerced and Free Migration : Global Perspectives $25.09 Edited by David Eltis Book This volume is an innovative history of major worldwide population movements, free and forced, from around 1500 to the early twentieth century. It explores the shifting levels of freedom under which migrants traveled and compares the experiences of migrants (and their descendants) who arrived under drastically different labor regimes. The themes of the collection are structured around changes in migration regimes over time, as well as the implications of those changes for the source and host societies, and the migrants themselves. The central and unifying issue is the varying degrees of freedom in the different migratory regimes and what this meant in the long run. In the initial period covered by the book, freedom to migrate had steadily eroded, and migration itself became gradually more free only in the nineteenth century. All eleven authors have widely acknowledged expertise not only in particular geographic or national branches of migration but also in more than one migratory or labor regime. The volume's wide geographical range incorporates the expansion of Europe eastward (under serfdom), as well as the extension of Africa and Europe westward across the Atlantic (slave, free, and indentured servant regimes), and movements from Asia and Africa by contract laborers. For the first time, experts on the various kinds of migrants have combined to address the issue of migration from the standpoint of the labor arrangement under which the migrants traveled. The result is a collection rich in comparative insights yet cohesive in terms of the issues addressed. CONTRIBUTORS: Philip D. Curtin, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Colin Forster, Richard Hellie, Walton Look Lai, David Moon, David Northrup, Mechal Sobel, Lorena S. Walsh, Marianne S. Wokeck Free and Coerced Migrations from the Old World 33 transatlantic migration , indentured servants , Bight of Biafra Changing Laws and Regulations and Their Impact 75 transatlantic slave trade , nomic , serfdom The Epidemiology of Migration 94 yellow fever , Southern United , sickle-cell trait The Differential Cultural Impact of Free and Coerced 117 Chesapeake , Bight of Biafra , Creole Irish and German Migration to EighteenthCentury 152 indentured servitude , Delaware Valley , Ireland Migration and Collective Identities among the Enslaved 176 Igbo , William Otter , Venture Smith Freedom and Indentured Labor in the French Caribbean 204 Guadeloupe , Martinique , Atlantic slave trade Asian Contract and Free Migrations to the Americas 229 Surinam , Southeast Asia , Mauritius Unwilling Migrants from Britain and France 259 South Wales , Caledonia , Van Diemen's Land Migration in Early Modern Russia 1480s1780s 292 Muscovy , Oprichnina , Crimean Tatars Peasant Migration the Abolition of Serfdom 324 Ukraine , internal passport , Black Earth region Abbreviations 361 David Eltis , Atlantic Slave Trade , Transatlantic Migration Index 433 This is a reproduction work from a scanned original edition. The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945 $25.48 Dain Borges Book The families of the Bahian upper class offer a vantage point from which to examine the changes in Brazilian culture around the turn of the twentieth century. Slow, yet palpable, shifts in mentalities, in customs, and in the informal organization of Brazilian society manifested themselves partly as changes in the family. Bahian families also provide a touchstone by which to measure the effects of official social reforms. The government, the Catholic Church, the medical profession, and free-lance social movements such as feminism all tried to reform the Bahian family. But their leverage was feeble, and the outcomes they achieved were sometimes unexpected. Between 1870 and 1945 Behian families changed, partly in response to exhortations, fads, new laws, and new ideologies. But they transformed themselves largely in response to an insecure and urbanizing economy. The shifts were subtle, and to a great extent they left intact the traditional structures. The primary change in Bahian families was a shift from a more patriarchal model of the family toward one that was more “companionate” in marriage, and more “conjugal” or “nuclear” in its definition of kinship. This sort of change was not unique to Brazil. A similar shift occurred in many parts of the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Brazilian culture seems to have resisted this change, perhaps more than was the case in Europe. Brazilian families preserved many of their traditional features, such as extended kinship affiliation. One the one hand, the Brazilian family become deceptively similar to the family in France or the United States; on the other hand, if retained customs and roles that seemed exotic to outsiders, such as the preference fro endogamous marriage or the routines of vida em familia, “life in the family cycle.” Bahia Society 10 Bahian , cacao , Estado Novo 2 Home Life 46 middle class , genipap , Gilberto Freyre Medicine and Families 85 wet nurse , Bahia , defloration The Law Political Reforms and the Family 112 canon law , Bahian , civil marriage Church and Family 152 marriage , godparents , Antonio Vieira Common Sense 186 godparents , ethic of reciprocity , coronelismo Mobility and Family Strategies 237 endogamous , daugh , Freyre Conclusion 274 travel literature , Brazilian literature , Wildberger Glossary 291 Itapagipe , Augusto da Silva , IBGE Bibliography 381 Arquivo , Bahia , Pinho Index 413 The State of Bahia 14 canon law , wet nurse , coronelismo Chart The Sodre Family Tree 248 novitiates , number of siblings , Traditional Families Sample Age at Marriage 254 Itapagipe , Augusto da Silva , IBGE Scarcity and Survival in Central America : Ecological Origins of the Soccer War $19.27 William H. Durham Book “The great importance if Durham’s book lies precisely in its solid, data-based documentation of the fallaciousness of the argument that population density always explains resource scarcity.” American Anthropologist In both the academic literature and the popular press, the so-called Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 is cited as a classic illustration of the problems of overpopulation. The conflict has been called the “demographic war” and a veritable “population explosion.” It has even been argues that the Soccer War represents in microcosm what may be in store for a world whose human population continues to increase at a rapid rate. Despite the importance attached to the conflict as an example of population pressure, there has been no systematic attempt to evaluate the underlying assumptions of the explanation. The massive emigration of Salvadoreans to Honduras, for example, is widely conceded to have precipitated the war, but no one has demonstrated that this emigration was wholly or even chiefly a response to population pressure. Similarly, although it has been argued that the stream of Salvadoreans added significantly to Honduras’s own population problems, few authors have actually assessed the impact of the immigrants at the local or national level. An evaluation of these assumptions is the goal of this study. Durham’s analysis is perhaps best described as a case study in human ecology – broadly defined as the study of the patterns and processes of human adaptation to environments. Because the patterns and processes of human adaptation in this world are not cleanly compartmentalized, studies in human ecology are legitimately approached from any number of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, population biology sociology, and demography. This study is no exception. Introduction 1 Honduras , El Salvador , Soccer War The Causes of Resource Scarcity in El Salvador 21 hectares , maize , E. A. Wilson Scarcity and Survival in Tenancingo 63 Tenancingo , hectares , F-statistic The Question of Resource Abundance in Honduras 102 Choluteca , square kilometers , maize Scarcity Survival and Salvadoreans in Langue 127 sharecropped , Nacaome , Pan-American Highway Conclusion 159 Señalando al cielo Javier Alfaro Guillén image

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The castle view Javier Alfaro Guillén image Monzón Castle Javier Alfaro Guillén image Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It $15.94 Louis D. Brandeis Book In 1913, Brandeis had written a series of articles for Harper's Weekly that suggested ways of curbing the power of large banks and money trusts. Then in 1914 he published a book entitled Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It.[23] He was also urging the Wilson administration to develop and present to Congress proposals for new antitrust legislation . . . . which gave the Department of Justice the power to enforce antitrust laws. According to McCraw he was "one of the architects of the FTC" and had served as Wilson's chief economic adviser from 1912 until 1916. "Above all else," writes McCraw, "Brandeis exemplified the anti-bigness ethic without which there would have been no Sherman Act, no antitrust movement, and no Federal Trade Commission."[5]:82 Other People's Money (excerpt) "Sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant. Electric light is the most efficient policeman. It has always been my view that when the people of this nation watch their government in action, they come to better understand how our governing institutions work and equip themselves to hold those institutions accountable for their deeds. If there are flaws in our governing institutions, including our courts, we hide them only at our own peril."[23] Modern day influences Today's business editors still refer to Brandeis's economic philosophy when trying to draw parallels between today's economic situation with those of earlier periods, as this 2009 New York Times editorial does: "Brandeis . . . described a dangerous combination of avarice, lack of accountability and poor oversight in Other People's Money, and How the Bankers Use It, one of the best-known exposés of the Progressive era. . . . It also offers valuable lessons for today. "Our current crisis, after all, was in part fueled by bankers making big gambles with other people's cash. They bundled and sold sub-prime mortgages, took their profits, and then left others holding portfolios full of worthless, even toxic, paper. This was exactly the kind of behavior that Brandeis despised."[24] Louis D. Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1916 to 1939. He grew up in Louisville, Kentucky to Jewish parents who were immigrants from Europe. He enrolled at Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty and earned the highest grade average in the college’s history. Brandeis settled in Boston where he became a recognized Progressive lawyer through his work on social causes which would benefit society. He helped develop the "right to privacy" concept by writing a Harvard Law Review article of that title, and was thereby credited by legal scholar Roscoe Pound as having accomplished "nothing less than adding a chapter to our law." Years later, a book he published, entitled Other People's Money, suggested ways of curbing the power of large banks and money trusts, which partly explains why he later fought against powerful corporations, monopolies, public corruption, and mass consumerism, all of which he felt was detrimental to American values and culture. When his family’s finances became secure, he began devoting most of his time to public causes and was later dubbed the “People’s Lawyer.” He insisted on serving on cases without pay so that he would be free to address the wider issues involved. Among his notable early cases were actions preventing railroad monopolies; defending workplace and labor laws; helping create the Federal Reserve System; and presenting ideas for the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC). He achieved recognition by submitting a case brief, later called the "Brandeis Brief," which relied on expert testimony from people in other professions to support his case, thereby setting a new precedent in evidence presentation. In 1916, President Wilson nominated Brandeis to become a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. However, his nomination was bitterly contested, partly because, as Justice William O. Douglas wrote, “Brandeis was a militant crusader for social justice whoever his opponent might be. He was dangerous not only because of his brilliance, his arithmetic, his courage. He was dangerous because he was incorruptible. . . .[and] the fears of the Establishment were greater because Brandeis was the first Jew to be named to the Court." He was eventually confirmed and would become one of the most famous and influential figures ever to serve on it. His case opinions were, according to legal scholars, some of the “greatest defenses” of freedom of speech and the right to privacy ever written by a member of the high court. Bush-era interrogation memo: 4 of 4 $17.70 U.S. Department of Justice Book Interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and slapping did not violate laws against torture when there was no intent to cause severe pain, according to a Bush-era memo on the tactics released 4/16/2009. The last of four memos from the U.S. Department of Justice. Bush-era interrogation memo: 3 of 4 $17.10 U.S. Department of Justice Book Interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and slapping did not violate laws against torture when there was no intent to cause severe pain, according to a Bush-era memo on the tactics released 4/16/2009. The third of four memos from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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