essay
Property and family division
anthropology of Taiwanese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1981 • Pages: 361-378, 468
By: Sung, Lung-sheng.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay considers the relevance of the distinctions between various categories of acquired and inherited property for differences in household and family structure among rural-dwellers near the town of Shu-lin. Several case-studies are presented of the developmental cycle for families in different social circumstances, illustrating the range of variation in emphasis upon extended or nuclear families, separate or compound households, weak or strong parental authority.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Property system
- Inheritance
- Household
- Family relationships
- 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
- 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
- 1970-1972
- 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)
- Shu-lin town, Taipei hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lung-sheng Sung
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese