Ancestral Images

Ancestral ImagesThis new revised edition collects in one place the articles from the three volumes of Hugh Bakers Ancestral Images originally published in 1979, 1980 and 1981. The 120 articles and photographs explore everyday life, customs and rituals in Hong Kongs rural New Territories. They investigate religion, food, language, history, festivals, family, strange happenings and clan warfare. The book documents much that can no longer be found. But it also provides

It also recognizes the challenge women's autobiography offers to theory

which have seen the body become a site for ageing differently – for ageing without becoming old

He places his study within the context of social order and the structure of power

important management criteria and more

Even without having a premium price for organic dairy products

so that they could live forever

and how we should live

and the rapidly expanding British Empire in the nineteenth century

Chronicles the efforts of the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court to establish a federal court system during the country's uncertain early years

all of them insisting on technical mastery

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and a Romantic-era history play