Book

The house of Lim: a study of a Chinese farm family

Appleton-Century-CroftsNew YorkPublished In 1968 • Pages:

By: Wolf, Margery.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book presents a case study of an ideal Hokkien extended family from a small community near the market town of Hsulin on the southwest edge of the Taipei plain. The family under scrutiny had been hosting the Wolfs during the period of the field work. The book offers unique material on the family structure and relationships and touches on many aspects of village life and institutions such as marriage, adoption, religion, youth organizations, sex, kinship, and agriculture.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Extended families
cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Taiwan Hokkien
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
1995
RegionThe area the document pertains to
Asia
Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
East Asia
Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
Book
EvaluationIn this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
Foreign Resident-5
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; Helen G. Bornstein
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1959-1961
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
not specified
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
'Peihotien' village, Taipei hsien, Hai-shan region, Taiwan
NotesAdditional notes
Margery Wolf ; foreword by Maurice Freedman
Includes bibliography
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
68011211
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Taiwanese