Spectacle and Sacrifice: The Ritual Foundations of Village Life in North China

by David George Johnson

This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described in this book were their supreme collective achievements and were carried...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674033043
• ISBN13: 9780674033047
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.3"