Kinship, Contract, Community, and State
内容简介
This book examines major areas of late imperial Chinese culture, and their relation to Chinese culture today, focusing on the competence and sophistication of ordinary people.
The work provides an overview of late imperial society and its responses to forces for change. Its ethnographically rich treatment of changes in family life under Communist rule is based on the author's fieldwork. Kinship beyond the family is treated through comparisons of the author's fieldwork sites in China and Taiwan. In dealing with the use of contracts and commodification within one community setting, it illuminates the broader economic culture of late imperial China. This book powerfully confirms that China's modernity has deep roots in its own tradition, and in doing so offers an excellent introduction to the anthropological view of China.
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作者简介
Myron L. Cohen is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and an affiliate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He is the author of House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan, and Asia Case Studies in the Social Sciences: A Guide for Teaching.
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目录
Introduction
SECTION I: Late Imperial china and Its Legacies
1. Introduction to Arthur H. Smith's Village Life in China
2. Being Chinese: The Peripheralization of Traditional Identity
3. Cultural and Political Inventions in Modern China: The Case of the Chinese "Peasant"
SECTION II: The Family
4. North China Rural Families: Changes During the Communist Era
SECTION III: Lineage Studies
5. Lineage Development and the Family in China
6. Lineage Organization in North China
7. Lineage Organization in East China
SECTION IV: Historical Anthropology: The Minong Community During Qing
8. Commodity Creation in Late Imperial China
9. Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: Contracts and the Documentation of Practical Understandings in Minong, Taiwan
Notes
Bibliography
Character List
Index
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