Book
Town and country: central-place theory and Chinese marketing systems
University Micrifilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1983 • Pages:
By: Crissman, Lawrence William.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation is a study in spatial analysis. In discussing and describing the desirability and utilities of employing central-place theory in anthropological regional analysis, Crissman reviews and criticizes: 1) classical central-place models, and 2) the literature on marketing and settlement patterns of mainland China. Crissman examines the fit of thse materials with Taiwanese data he has accumulated, and offers explanation of differences with diachronic models of his own.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- History
- Settlement patterns
- Commercial facilities
- Internal trade
- Mercantile business
- 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
- Book
- 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
- J. A. 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern Changhua hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lawrence William Crissman
- Thesis (Ph.D.) - Columbia University, 1973
- UM 74-6296
- The author's description of the Guttman scale of complexity was indexed for category 121
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese