| Titre | La « position » dans le cérémonial d'État à la fin de l'Empire | |
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| Auteur | Marianne Bastid-Bruguière | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 18, 1996 Disposer pour dire, placer pour penser, situer pour agir : Pratiques de la position en Chine | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I. Les positions, principes de structuration |
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| Page | 51-69 | |
| Résumé anglais |
« Position » in state ceremonial in late Imperial China
Marked on the ground or recorded in illustrated descriptions, the positions of participants and ritual objects remains even today a crucial element of the state ceremonial in China. The notion helps to define, organize and represent the ceremonial space with respect to the categories, not to the individuals, attending the ritual. The system of positions shows the arrangement at the beginning of the ceremony, representing the global order that the ritual must exhibit rather than its concrete performance. Positions are not localisations, defined by fixed measures, but have relative values within a configuration. Their use places divine and human realities in an oriented space that corresponds to the cosmos. The position of each element shows two things : on the one hand its intrinsic strength, and on the other the forces applied to it in a hierarchical order, reflected by the spatial configuration. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_1996_num_18_18_1018 |
