essay

Social organization in Hai-shan

anthropology of Taiwanese societyStanford, Calif.Published In 1981 • Pages: 125-147, 453-454

By: Harrell, Stevan.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Harrell is concerned in this essay with explaining major differences in social organization evident in three rural communities southwest of Taipei. Harrell suggests that the relevance or absence of lineage organization in each village is a function of the different adaptive responses of peasants to varying environmental conditions. The relationship of social and spatial organization in each community to ritual activities is also discussed.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Household
Lineages
Community structure
Towns
Congregations
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.
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
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1970, 1972-1973
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)
Taipei hsien, Hai-shan region, including the market towns of Shu-lin, Ying-ko and San-hsia, Taiwan
NotesAdditional notes
Stevan Harrell
Includes bibliography
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Taiwanese