essay
Domestic architecture in Taiwan: continuity and change
Value change in Chinese society • New York • Published In 1979 • Pages: 155-170
By: Martin, Emily.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay explores the meaning of the spread of an urban style of housing to rural areas. The essay contains descriptions of the traditional rural house style, the new urban house style, and geomancy and the orientation of buildings. Ahern concludes that the choice of the urban vs. the rural house style is related to the occupation of the household and expresses attitudes about those occupations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Urban and rural life
- Ethnophysics
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnosociology
- 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.
- 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
- Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1975
- 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)
- Qinan (Ch'i-nan) village, Sanxia (Sanhsia) township (p. 155), Taipei hsien, Hai-shan region, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emily M. Ahern
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77083479
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese