essay
Growing old in rural Taiwan
Other ways of growing old : anthropological perspectives • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1981 • Pages: 193-210, 259-260
By: Harrell, Stevan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay describes the status and activities of the aged in rural Taiwan. Harrell discusses the differences between male and female experiences in aging.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Family relationships
- Senescence
- Activities of the aged
- Status and treatment of the aged
- 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.
- 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
- 1972-1973
- 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)
- Ploughshare village, Taipei hsien, but article is generalized, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stevan Harrell
- Includes bibliography
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79066056
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese