Kinship, contract, community, and state : anthropological perspectives on China /
Cohen, Myron L., 1937-
Kinship, contract, community, and state : anthropological perspectives on China / Myron L. Cohen. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005. - xii, 359 p. : map ; 24 cm. - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University . - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-345) and index.
Introduction -- Introduction to Arthur H. Smith's Village life in China -- Being Chinese : the peripheralization of traditional identity -- Cultural and political inventions in modern China : the case of the Chinese "peasant" -- North China rural families : changes during the communist era -- Lineage development and the family in China -- Lineage organization in north China -- Lineage organization in east China -- Commodity creation in late imperial China -- Writs of passage in late imperial China : contracts and the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan.
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. In dealing with the use of contracts and commodification within one community setting, it illuminates the broader economic culture of late imperial China.
0804750661 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780804750660 (hbk. : alk. paper) 080475067X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780804750677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004020533
Ethnology--China.
Kinship--China.
Patrilineal kinship--China.
Families--China.
Ethnologie--Chine.
Parenté--Chine.
Filiation patrilinéaire--Chine.
Famille--Chine.
Völkerkunde.
Gesellschaft.
Verwandtschaft--Sozialanthropologie--China--Aufsatzsammlung.
Familie--Sozialanthropologie--China--Aufsatzsammlung.
China--History.
China--Social life and customs.
Chine--Histoire.
Chine--Mœurs et coutumes.
China.
China--Verwandtschaft--Sozialanthropologie--Aufsatzsammlung.
China--Familie--Sozialanthropologie--Aufsatzsammlung.
GN635.C6 / C64 2005
306/.0951
Kinship, contract, community, and state : anthropological perspectives on China / Myron L. Cohen. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005. - xii, 359 p. : map ; 24 cm. - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University . - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-345) and index.
Introduction -- Introduction to Arthur H. Smith's Village life in China -- Being Chinese : the peripheralization of traditional identity -- Cultural and political inventions in modern China : the case of the Chinese "peasant" -- North China rural families : changes during the communist era -- Lineage development and the family in China -- Lineage organization in north China -- Lineage organization in east China -- Commodity creation in late imperial China -- Writs of passage in late imperial China : contracts and the documentation of practical understandings in Minong, Taiwan.
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. In dealing with the use of contracts and commodification within one community setting, it illuminates the broader economic culture of late imperial China.
0804750661 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780804750660 (hbk. : alk. paper) 080475067X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780804750677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2004020533
Ethnology--China.
Kinship--China.
Patrilineal kinship--China.
Families--China.
Ethnologie--Chine.
Parenté--Chine.
Filiation patrilinéaire--Chine.
Famille--Chine.
Völkerkunde.
Gesellschaft.
Verwandtschaft--Sozialanthropologie--China--Aufsatzsammlung.
Familie--Sozialanthropologie--China--Aufsatzsammlung.
China--History.
China--Social life and customs.
Chine--Histoire.
Chine--Mœurs et coutumes.
China.
China--Verwandtschaft--Sozialanthropologie--Aufsatzsammlung.
China--Familie--Sozialanthropologie--Aufsatzsammlung.
GN635.C6 / C64 2005
306/.0951