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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "content_text": "139\n\nmandated an equal division of the estate among the so-called sui heredes in potestate, the natural heirs still subject to paternal authority at the moment of their father's death. In the absence of natural heirs in potestate, the estate then passed to the nearest agnatic kinsmen, then the more distant, and so on (Inst. Iust. 2.13.5, 3.1.1; Ulp. 26.1). What remains uncertain is whether sons had a binding obligation at this time to make offerings to their father even if they failed to inherit property from him. Hence an attempt to determine whether the cult of the dead was at its inception rooted in kinship or property would be fruitless. One may, however, safely conclude that as the inheritance provisions of Roman law became more flexible, and fewer and fewer individuals bequeathed the entirety of their estate to their natural heirs, property steadily undermined whatever role kinship had originally played in the cult, and ultimately triumphed completely.\n\n69\n\nQuestions of this sort can be easily multiplied, but we may suitably conclude by considering a second aspect of the cult that centres on the exercise of paternal authority as well as rights in property. This is the source of the belief that the spirits of the deceased may act with benevolence or malevolence toward the living. Here again, anthropologists present dramatically conflicting points of view. Lambert, Triandis and Wolf believe the attribution of malevolent activity to one's ancestors to be a reflection of punitive practices in infant and child rearing. The opposite point of view has been nicely summed up by Gough in a paper on the Nayars, in which she concludes that \"cults of predominately punitive ancestors are likely to be accompanied by kinship relationships in which the senior generation retains control over the junior until late in life.\" The work of Jack Goody among the LoDagaa has powerfully reinforced this verdict. The elders of this tribe tenaciously exercise their rights in position and property until the moment of death — an event that is therefore hoped for as well as feared; when it comes, the death arouses joy as well as sadness, the inheritance brings guilt as well as pleasure. Guilt engenders a sense of fear, and encourages the living to believe that their misfortunes result from the hostility of an injured and vengeful ancestor.",
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        "series_id": 26,
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1990",
        "page_number": 371,
        "title": "RAS-1990",
        "content_text": "348\n\nthe police, the courts and the judiciary, and correctional services. Among the topics examined are armed robbery, drug abuse, vice, commercial crime, illegal immigration, and smuggling.\n\nWacks, Raymond, editor, HUMAN RIGHTS IN HONG KONG, Hong Kong, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xxiii + 542 pp. Index. In this important work fourteen scholars at the University of Hong Kong examine the future of human rights in Hong Kong in the context of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which comes into effect on 1 July 1997, the Bill of Rights, enacted in Hong Kong in June 1991, and international conventions and statutes that guarantee human rights. The editor is Professor of Law and Head of the Department of Law at the University of Hong Kong.\n\nWolf, Margery, THRICE TOLD TALE: FEMINISM, POSTMODERNISM AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESPONSIBILITY, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. 153 pp. Bibliography. Index. Even for the non-specialists who are not concerned with scholarly arguments over research methods and terminology, the tales Professor Wolf tells are fascinating.\n\nPang Pang, THE DEATH OF HU YAOBANG, translated from the Chinese by Si Ren, paperback. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Center for Chinese Studies, 1989. viii + 74pp. The book was written immediately after the death of Hu Yaobang on 15 April 1989, before the events of June that year. It is an account of Hu's last days in the Beijing Hospital, juxtaposed with revealing interviews with people closest to Hu. Very good easy reading.\n\nPeters, Emrys L., THE BEDOUIN OF CYRENAICA: STUDIES IN PERSONAL AND CORPORATE POWER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Emrys L. Peters articles, edited by Jack Goody and Emanuel Marx, for the interested reader and anthropological students.\n\nRoberts, Priscilla (editor), SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS SINCE 1900, Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, 1991. iv + 563 pp. This important volume on Sino-American relations in the 20th century consists of papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Hong Kong in January 1990. There are more than 30 papers presented in Chinese and English. The Chinese papers",
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