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Italic page numbers refer to fi gures, maps, and tables. aff ective ties, 16– 18, 127– 28, 133– 35, 140, 66– 67, 69; tablets as, 34. See also god 171– 73 statues; possessions agency: of god statues, 28, 44; internal Th e Brief Account of Taiwanfu Maps and external, 6, 9– 10, 28; of objects, (Taiwanfu Yutu Zuanyao), 79 5–6, 9–10 Buddhism: pietistic movements, 103; alienation, 4, 51 Tzu Chi sect, 17, 166– 67, 172 ancestors: diff erences from deities, 33– 34, 51; material forms and relationships, camps. See spirit soldiers 36, 36; of spirit mediums, 56– 57, capitalism, 94– 96, 98, 103, 139, 142. See 60– 61; spirits, 33– 35; statues, 34– 35; also neoliberalism tablets, 33– 34 Celestial Heart (T’ien- hsin chiao- p’ai) sect, 4, 76– 78. See also Daoism: Bade: industry, 22, 107, 110– 12; map, 19; Celestial Heart temple, 156; migration to, 13, chain migration, 107, 108 21– 22, 107– 9 Chen, Hsin- Chih, 104– 5 Bade, Wannian migrants in: adaptation, children: “godparenting” rite, 61– 62; 109; chain migration, 22, 107, 108; schools, 89; activities, 126. See challenges, 13, 14, 110– 12; jobs, 13, also youth 107, 109, 110– 12; social networks, : province, 41; Qing 109–10, 114, 118, 137–40; work dynasty, 146, 148– 49; , 104; injuries, 110– 11, 118. See also Jingming temple construction, 98– 99 shrine Chinese pop u lar religion. See pop u lar Bao’an temple (), 158 religion Bloch, Maurice, 11 Chi Wangye (deity), 80 bodies: god statues as, 38– 40; of Nazha, Ci’angong temple (Sanliaowan), 81– 84 181n10; souls and, 47, 51, 66– 67, 71; of cities. See Bade; urban spirit mediums, 51, 59, 60, 63, 65, Comaroff , Jean, 14, 17, 139 198 Index

Comaroff , John, 17 117– 18, 140, 143– 44, 146, 149, 150– 51, computer technology, 111, 131. See also 154–56, 159–61, 159, 162, 168; use of, 54, Internet 117, 148 confi nement rice shoujin( mi), 61, 62 divination chairs, 54, 56, 157 consulting deity ritual, 1– 2, 45, 64– 66, divine power. See magic power 67, 150– 51 Donglonggong (Temple of Eastern cosmic bonds ( ), 17, 166– 67 Prosperity, Sanliaowan): activities, 21, cosmological models: traditional, 9, 28, 89; board members, 90– 93, 96; 41, 47, 51, 106; in urban areas, 106 construction, 84, 87; deities, 80, 84–89, 91– 93; “fate- changing” rite, 95– 96; Dadaogong (Sanliaowan deity), 80, 81, fi nancial contributions, 91–92, 93, 94, 83, 88 96; god statues, 95, 96– 98; migrants Dadaogong statue (Xuejia), 30, 31, 35, 49, and, 21, 89–92, 93; regulations, 96–98; 83, 88 renaming, 92, 92, 98; renovations and Dadaogong statue, fi rst (Wannian): base, reconstruction, 21, 90–92; spirit 45, 46; branch statue for Bade, 114, 157; mediums, 94–96; taxes, 96 brought to village, 28; departure of Donglonggong temple (Pingdong), 84, spirit, 49– 50; legends, 48– 49; as main 87 deity, 30, 35; spirit medium, 31– 32, drumming, 123– 25, 124 68–69 Durkheim, Emile, 4– 5 Dadaogong statue, second (Wannian), 30, 31, 35, 48– 49, 68– 69, 114 emotions. See aff ective ties Daoism: Celestial Heart (T’ien- hsin exorcism rituals, 119, 125, 125, 134, 144–46, chiao- p’ai), 4, 76– 78; deities, 154; 145, 151 priests, 53– 54, 69 external agency, 6, 9– 10, 28 Davis, Scott, 105 deaths: funerals, 97, 129; of parents- in- Facebook, 122– 24, 123, 124, 125, 125 law, 147– 48; symbolic, 55, 56, 67 families. See ancestors; children; kinship deities: anthropomorphized, 74– 75; relations bureaucratic hierarchy, 3, 4, 12, 31, Feuchtwang, Stephen, 106 50– 51, 76– 77, 78; communicating Fu- chou, 76, 78 with, 54; defi ning, 32; delocalization, Fujian Province, 41 15, 168; diff erences from ancestors, funerals, 97, 129 33– 34, 51; kinship relations, 31– 32, 51, 68, 84– 85; localization, 11– 12, 51, 69, gambling, 137– 38 75–76, 77; material forms and Geertz, Cliff ord, 7 relationships, 36, 36, 50; materializa- Gell, Alfred, 5– 6, 9, 10, 28, 51, 171 tion, 28, 37– 40, 70, 72; personal gender division of labor, 119– 21, 124– 26, relationships with, 4, 17, 51, 163– 67, 128, 130, 138 172; power, 35, 40, 45, 72; translocal, Gennep, Arnold van, 55 76, 92– 94, 99; without statues, 47– 48. ghosts: cults, 3, 14; material forms and See also god statues; spirit mediums relationships, 36, 36 delocalization, of deities, 15, 168 ghost temples, 103 “Dinglan Saved His Mother,” 33– 34 god statues: agency, 28, 44; branch, 13, divination blocks: statue carving and, 37; 95, 105, 113– 14, 157; bringing to use by Jingming spirit medium, individual houses, 1– 2, 45, 49, 64,