essay
Social structure in a nineteenth-century Taiwanese port city
city in late Imperial China • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1977 • Pages: 633-650, 767-769
By: DeGlopper, Donald R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
DeGlopper's use of the term 'social structure' is meant to refer only to the town of Lukang's 'major, enduring corporate groups and to patterned relations among them' (p. 637). Based upon both field and archival research, DeGlopper identifies two such groups -- surname groups CUM neighborhood associations and merchant guilds -- and discusses their role and activities in Lukang's past. Some information is also given on secular and ritual rivalries between groups and their ceremonial expression, as well as on the relations between Lukang's wealthy merchants and government officials.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Mercantile business
- Social relationships and groups
- Lineages
- Clans
- Moieties
- Community structure
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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; J. Simpson
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 19th century
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lukang city, Changhua hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Donald R. DeGlopper
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese