The Anthropology of Taiwanese society
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The Anthropology of Taiwanese society
Stanford University Press, 1981
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume represents the state of the art of anthropology in Taiwan, summing up more than twenty years of fieldwork and publication. It also contains the fullest and best integrated set of anthropological data we have for any region of China, for any period of history. It deals directly with the difficult question that faces China anthropologists - in what sense is Taiwan a part of China? Should Taiwan be primarily described as a natural end product of a long cultural tradition (a Chinese province), or should it be primarily described as a product of external factors (a small, rapidly developing society with the world's densest population, uniquely situated in the world economy)? For other anthropologists, the volume contains data and analysis that pertain to many current problems: the relationship between ethnicity and social class, the role of historical factors in anthropological explanation, the interaction between religious activities and state control, and the interplay between national and local political and economic systems.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Hill Gates and Emily Martin Ahern
- Part I. Political Organization: 2. National, regional, and local politics Edwin A. Winckler
- 3. Government enterprise and village politics Chung-min Chen
- 4. Roles linking state and society Edwin A. Winckler
- Part II. Local Organization: 5. The structure of local and regional systems Lawrence W. Crissman
- 6. Social organization in Hai-shan Stevan Harrell
- Part III. Economic organization: 7. Economics and ecology Burton Pasternak
- 8. Perceptions of work among factory women Lydia Kung
- 9. Continuitites in land tenure, 1900-1940 Edgar Wickberg
- Part IV. Ethnicity: 10. Ethnicity and social class Hill Gates
- 11. Subethnic rivalry in the Ch'ing period Harry J. Lamley
- 12. Voluntary associations and rural-urban migration Alexander Chien-chung Yin
- Part V. The Family: 13. Domestic organization Arthur P. Wolf
- 14. Property and family division Lung-sheng Sung
- Part VI. Region and Ritual: 15. The sexual politics of karmic retribution Gary Seaman
- 16. The Thai Ti Kong festival Emily Martin Ahern
- Afterword Sidney W. Mintz
- Character list
- Index.
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