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The cultural bases of factional alignment and division in a rural Taiwanese township
Journal of Asian studies • 36 (1) • Published In 1976 • Pages: 79-97
By: Jacobs, J. Bruce.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is concerned with factional divisions and the political organization of 'Matsu', a township described by Jacobs as relatively homogeneous in population. Various bases of political alignment are discussed, such as sodalities among co-workers, former classmates, and affines. Data are presented relating to the township's commercial and administrative hierarchies, as well as the tendency of marketing communities toward endogamy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Commercial facilities
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Community structure
- Towns
- Political parties
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Political Scientist
- Document Rating 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus; David Sherwood
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1971-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1880-1970
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Matsu' township, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Bruce Jacobs
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese