List of illustrations ix
Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction 1
The multilocation and multilocution of Tudi Gong in contemporary Taiwan 1
Positing and positioning the reader/writer 7
An ethnography and anthropology of place 8
PART I
Telling stories about place 17
1 Datong district 25
‘Finding my feet’ 25
Mapping territories 26
‘Siting’ and ‘sighting’ Tudi Gong temples in Datong district 34
2 Yongxing village 73
‘Feeling at home’: positioning myself and being positioned 73
My good friend uncle Lai and his family 77
Yongxing: the village and its people 86
Tudi Gong, Lin Peng and the Twelve Ancient Heroes 96
On my way back to the city 106
PART II
Writing place and the place of writing 109
3 ‘Siting’ and ‘sighting’ texts 111
From the vantage point of hindsight: reflecting on the first two chapters 111
‘Siting’ and ‘sighting’ texts: on writing about Tudi Gong in Datong district and Yongxing village 119
Questions in motion 133
Concluding thoughts 134
PART III
Telling stories about Tudi Gong 139
4 The ‘territories’ of Tudi Gong 143
On the ‘territories’ of Tudi Gong: an introduction 143
Tudi Gong: the spirit of the Yin and Yang worlds 144
Delimiting, guarding and purifying the territory: the Fang Jun-Shou Jun ritual in Datong district, Taibei city 163
Discussion 170
5 Fragments from ‘popular tradition’: telling stories and other representations of Tudi Gong 176
Introduction: fragments from ‘popular tradition’ 176
Telling stories about Tudi Gong 178
Other representations of Tudi Gong 195
Discussion 214
PART IV
Conclusion 219
6 Retelling stories about place and Tudi Gong: retrospectives and prospectives 221
Tudi Gong and place: the inspiration of place 221
Tudi Gong and place as locale: the agency of place 223
Tudi Gong and place as territory: the authorisation of place 227
Tudi Gong and place as locality: the durability of place 229
Tudi Gong and place as location: the congruence of place 232
Tudi Gong and place as senses of place: the personality and power of place 235
Tudi Gong and place as community and identity: the practice, ambiguities and contradictions of place 237
The anthropologist as Tudi Gong: the authority of place 248
Notes 252
Selected glossary 271
Bibliography 283
Index 294
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