Seven Strands of the Serpent's Tail: Creativity and Cultural Improvisation in the Making of a Ritual Whip in Contemporary Taiwan.
Among the most ubiquitous ritual implements in modern Taiwan, the ritual whip functions to dispel demons and to summon spirit soldiers, the material embodiment of a fearsome serpent deity. Known as Saint Golden Whip, a standard ritual whip has a wooden handle carved in the likeness of a snake, a dra...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 83; no. 2; pp. 199 - 231 |
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Nanzan University
2024
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