Book
Marriage and adoption in China, 1845-1945
Stanford University Press • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1980 • Pages:
By: Wolf, Arthur P., Huang, Chieh-shan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an in-depth study of marriage and adoption practices in nine districts of northern Taiwan between the years 1845-1945. The bulk of the data is drawn from Japanese family life and household surveys conducted during their occupation of Taiwan, and concerns the complex social forces which interacted to produce preferences for raising adopted daughters as sons' wives ('minor marriage'), arranging marriages for children ('major marriage'), or uxorilocal marriage. The study aims at showing that marriage practices were the complex reflections of a variety of demographic, economic and psychological forces that interacted in different ways at different times and places, rather than the simple reflections of uniformly-held ideals (p. 1). Comparisons are drawn between Wolf's data and data from the Chinese mainland and other parts of Taiwan.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Family relationships
- Adoption
- Parents-in-law and children-in-law
- Rule of descent
- Conception
- Social placement
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Political Scientist
- 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
- M. A. Marcus
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1845-1945
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Hai-Shan region, southwestern Taipei hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arthur P. Wolf and Chieh-shan Huang
- Includes index.|Bibliography: p. [381]-386
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78066182
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese