essay
Government enterprise and village politics
anthropology of Taiwanese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1981 • Pages: 38-49, 450
By: Chen, Chung-min.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay discusses the role and functions of political brokers in an area where villagers depend for their livlihoods upon contractual arrangements with the government-owned Taiwan Sugar Company. Commissioners who act as the Company's agents in daily dealings with the peasants find that this role enables them to gain political influence as well, thereby displacing traditional village or lineage leaders in authority.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Special crops
- Confectionery industries
- Local officials
- Informal in-group justice
- 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.
- 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; Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1971
- 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)
- Upper 'Camp' village [probably the same as Ying-ting, source 12, this file], Tainan hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Chung-min Chen
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese