essay

Domestic architecture in Taiwan: continuity and change

Value change in Chinese societyNew YorkPublished 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