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A case study of the dynamics of family law and social change in rural China
Chinese family law and social change • Seattle • Published In 1978 • Pages: 217-260, 503-527
By: Buxbaum, David C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay is a study of marriage and residence patterns in Taiwan and mainland China. Buxbaum examines the interrelation between positive and customary family law in rural China, and shows how changes in the codified law can bring about changes in social practice. A case study of a rural Taiwanese village illustrates this phenomenon, and includes specific information on recent changes in family law as well as statistical information on marriage and residence patterns throughout the twentieth century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Information sources listed in other works
- Comparative evidence
- Sociocultural trends
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Residence
- Household
- Extended families
- Lineages
- Clans
- Legal norms
- 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.
- 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
- David Sherwood
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1967
- 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)
- Taiwan, village in the Hai-Shan region, Kan-yüan li
- NotesAdditional notes
- David C. Buxbaum
- The section of this essay (pp. 248-260) that deals with family law in mainland China has been indexed for category 171
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76007781
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese