Rites of Belonging: Memory, Modernity, and Identity in a by Jean DeBernardi PDF

By Jean DeBernardi

ISBN-10: 0804744866

ISBN-13: 9780804744867

In what's this present day Malaysia, the British verified George city on Penang Island in 1786, and inspired chinese language retailers and employees emigrate to this shiny buying and selling port. within the multicultural city cost that built, the chinese language immigrants prepared their social existence via group temples just like the Guanyin Temple (Kong Hok Palace) and their mystery sworn brotherhoods. those group institutions assumed remarkable significance accurately simply because they have been a way to set up a social presence for the chinese language immigrants, to prepare their social existence, and to demonstrate their financial prowess. The Confucian "cult of reminiscence" additionally took on new meanings within the early 20th century as a sort of racial satisfaction. In twentieth-century Penang, non secular practices and occasions persisted to attract the limits of belonging within the idiom of the sacred.

Part I of Rites of Belonging makes a speciality of the conjuncture among chinese language and British in colonial Penang. the writer heavily analyzes the 1857 Guanyin Temple Riots and conflicts resulting in the suppression of the chinese language sworn brotherhoods. half II investigates the conjuncture among chinese language and Malays in modern Malaysia, and the revitalization within the Seventies and Eighties of chinese language well known spiritual culture.

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