Food, Sacrifice, and Sagehood in Early China

Informationen zum Autor Roel Sterckx is Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. His publications include The Animal and the Daemon in Early China (2002). Klappentext Explores how religious culture influenced the ways in which the early Chinese explained the workings of the human senses. Zusammenfassung In ancient China! food preparation and the offering up of food as a religious sacrifice were intimately connected with models of sagehood and ideas of self-cultivation and morality. Roel Sterckx's book explores how this culture influenced the ways in which the early Chinese explained the workings of the human senses. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Customs and cuisine; 2. Cooking the world; 3. Sacrifice and sense; 4. The economics of sacrifice; 5. Sages, spirits, and senses.

Product details

• Authors: Roel Sterckx, Roel (Professor Sterckx, Sterckx Roel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2011
• EAN: 9781107001718
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00171-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, Religion: general, History of Religion, Food & society, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, Asian History, Cultural studies: food and society, BCE period – Protohistory