K un Shen, a Taiwan village / [print]
By Norma Diamond.
- New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (c)1969.
- x, 111 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Case studies in cultural anthropology .
Housing -- Clothing -- Diet and food preparation -- The economic base of village life -- Sea fishing -- Pond cultivation -- Village class structure -- Environmental control and social change -- Growing up in K'un Shen -- The Green Years -- Death and funeral procedures -- Family, household, and lineage -- Marriage ceremonies -- The husband-wife relationship -- Village and community -- The Temple community -- The religious life in K'un Shen -- The Lung-shan Temple -- The gods of heaven -- The spirits of hell -- The Goddess Kuan-im and other deities -- The prevention and cure of illness: sacred and secular medicine.