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Telling Stories
B. J. ter Haar
其他書名
Witchcraft And Scapegoating in Chinese History
出版BRILL, 2006
主題History / Asia / ChinaBody, Mind & Spirit / WitchcraftSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural
ISBN97890041484449004148442
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-PVPyPRcPBYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Chinese versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story; the use of parts of the adult human body, children and foetuses, to draw out their life-force; attacks by mysterious creatures, causing open wounds, suffocation, the loss of hair and the like; the presence of a Drought Demon in the corpses of recently deceased women; and finally the emperor forcibly recruiting unmarried women for his harem. Of interest to historians and anthropologists working on oral traditions, folklore and witch-hunts (also from a comparative perspective), but also to those working on anti-Christian movements and the intersection of popular fears and political history in China.