To help those interested in ritual to navigate around this labyrinthine site:
apart from the numerous posts (under MY BLOG), the menu at the top also contains pages, of which I’d like to draw attention to the many detailed field reports on local ritual under the Themes menu:
and there’s more if you keep scrolling down that sub-menu!
Most of them refer to household ritual groups in counties of Shanxi and Hebei, with further notes from elsewhere around north China—outlining their histories, artefacts, and ritual sequences for funerals and temple fairs. You can also explore the sidebar for the various categories (albeit voluminous) and tags. But these field reports under local ritual are a basic resource.
Ritual performers, North Xinzhuang 1959.
Posts on south China, collected under the south China tag (in addition to the south China subhead of the ritual category!), are more diverse.
Also in the menu is the Playlist—with commentary on the tracks contained in the Music player as you scroll down in the sidebar beneath the categories. The other pages to the right of the menu are worth exploring too, like the other material under Themes, and the Other publications and WAM sub-menus. And then, in the sidebar, there’s always the searchbox…
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