Kinship, contract, community, and state : anthropological perspectives on China / Myron L. Cohen.
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.Description: xii, 359 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN:- 0804750661 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780804750660 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 080475067X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780804750677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Ethnology -- China
- Kinship -- China
- Patrilineal kinship -- China
- Families -- China
- China -- History
- China -- Social life and customs
- Ethnologie -- Chine
- Parenté -- Chine
- Filiation patrilinéaire -- Chine
- Famille -- Chine
- Chine -- Histoire
- Chine -- Mœurs et coutumes
- Völkerkunde
- Gesellschaft
- Verwandtschaft -- China -- Sozialanthropologie -- Aufsatzsammlung
- Familie -- China -- Sozialanthropologie -- Aufsatzsammlung
- China
- China -- Verwandtschaft -- Sozialanthropologie -- Aufsatzsammlung
- China -- Familie -- Sozialanthropologie -- Aufsatzsammlung
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- GN635.C6 C64 2005
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| GN635.C5 N44 1996 Negotiating ethnicities in China and Taiwan / | GN635.C5 S5 1968 Anthropology of northern China, | GN635.C5 W357 2009 Empire and local worlds : a Chinese model for long-term historical anthropology / | GN635.C6 C64 2005 Kinship, contract, community, and state : anthropological perspectives on China / | GN635.C6 H37 2001 Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China / | GN635.C6 H37 2001 Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China / | GN635.C6 H37 2001 Ways of being ethnic in Southwest China / |
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.
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