- Hardcover: 248 pages
- Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr (July 1982)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0295959460
- ISBN-13: 978-0295959467
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Pedestrian 1970s ethnography of atomized Taiwanese village,
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This review is from: Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan (Hardcover)
With a foreshortened historical perspective, Harrell describes changing patterns of employment, internal stratification, social grouping, family types, and ancestral cults in a former mining town in Haishan that became involved in manufacturing, both in local, small, subcontracting enterprises and as a source of labor for larger enterprises in and around nearby Daiba (Taipei) during the 1970s. He attributes the absence of lineage organization to the difficulties involved in collective ownership of property other than land and the ease of migration for those not tied to landholdings. (Many Taiwanese villages were exclusively or predominantly comprised of persons with the same surname. The one he studied was atypical in its mixture of surnames.)Harrell discusses the social and economic co-operation of unrelated persons, the simplification of ancestor worship in a locale without established lineage organizations, and the relatively higher status of women in a place where the household is the predominant unit of social organization. Rates of uxorilocal marriage are higher (15%) and rates of minor marriage are lower (35%) than in peasant villages in which the lineage is the major unit of social organization. Harrell attributes the relative lack of "dependency" symptoms (stratification and comprador capitalism) to the expansion of the (manufacturing) core to such villages, while avoiding examination of politics, local, national, or international. (In earlier work, he credited Japanese development of transport infrastructure and agriculture for providing the base for decentralized industrial development.)
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Pedestrian 1970s ethnography of atomized Taiwanese village,
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This review is from: Ploughshare Village: Culture and Context in Taiwan (Hardcover)
With a foreshortened historical perspective, Harrell describes changing patterns of employment, internal stratification, social grouping, family types, and ancestral cults in a former mining town in Haishan that became involved in manufacturing, both in local, small, subcontracting enterprises and as a source of labor for larger enterprises in and around nearby Daiba (Taipei) during the 1970s. He attributes the absence of lineage organization to the difficulties involved in collective ownership of property other than land and the ease of migration for those not tied to landholdings. (Many Taiwanese villages were exclusively or predominantly comprised of persons with the same surname. The one he studied was atypical in its mixture of surnames.)Harrell discusses the social and economic co-operation of unrelated persons, the simplification of ancestor worship in a locale without established lineage organizations, and the relatively higher status of women in a place where the household is the predominant unit of social organization. Rates of uxorilocal marriage are higher (15%) and rates of minor marriage are lower (35%) than in peasant villages in which the lineage is the major unit of social organization. Harrell attributes the relative lack of "dependency" symptoms (stratification and comprador capitalism) to the expansion of the (manufacturing) core to such villages, while avoiding examination of politics, local, national, or international. (In earlier work, he credited Japanese development of transport infrastructure and agriculture for providing the base for decentralized industrial development.) |
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