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Prosperity Settlement: the politics of PAIPAI in Taipei, Taiwan

University MicrofilmsAnn Arbor, Mich.Published In 1983 • Pages:

By: Gates, Hill.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This dissertation is a study of PAIPAI, or annual community religious festivals, in 'Prosperity Settlement', a pseudonymous portion of a LI on the edge of Taipei City. Gates shows how the PAIPAI and other traditional Taiwanese social forms function in adapting the economy and social and political organization of the settlement to the encroaching urban and complexities of urban life.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Internal trade
Retail marketing
Classes
Household
Extended families
Community structure
Inter-community relations
Cult of the dead
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
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.
5: Excellent Primary Data
AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
David Sherwood
Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1970
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)
'Prosperity Settlement,' Taiwan (p. 18-19)
NotesAdditional notes
Hill Gates Rohsenow
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Michigan, 1973
UM 74-15,837
Includes bibliography
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Taiwanese