lineages in jinhua culture as repertoire: genealogy/origin legends collective sacrifice ancestral...
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Lineages in Jinhua
Culture as repertoire:• Genealogy/Origin legends• Collective sacrifice• Ancestral halls• Corporate Property• Education• Litigation• Self-regulation
• A Chinese genealogy is “a set of claims to origin and relationships, a charter, a map of dispersion, a framework for wide-ranging social organization, a blueprint for action. It is a political statement” – Maurice Freedman
Interpreting the repertoire
• “feudal exploitation”
• Neo-Confucian philosophy in practice
• Trickledown
• Response to material conditions in central and south China
• Elite strategy for dominance