Book
Ploughshare village: culture and context in Taiwan
University of Washington Press • (35) • Published In 1982 • Pages: ix, 234
By: Harrell, Stevan.
Abstract
This is an ethnography of the village of Ploughshare (Li-she-wei), a community of coal miners, located in the southwestern Taibei Basin of Taiwan Island in the area known as Haishan. Primary emphasis is on the socio-economic system of the Taiwan Hokkien, their social organization, and religion. Harrell describes Ploughshare's place in the series of socio-economic systems of which it is part, and concomitant changes in the society over time from the founding of the village in the nineteenth century until ca. 1978. Harrell also describes the changing nature of work available to the villagers, social inequality and social relationships within the community, family structure, and religion.
- Subjects
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Sociocultural trends
- Cereal agriculture
- Arboriculture
- Textile industries
- Real property
- Income and demand
- Labor supply and employment
- Classes
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Household
- Nuclear family
- Extended families
- Community structure
- Cult of the dead
- General character of religion
- Spirits and gods
- culture
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle
- Field Date
- 1973, 1978 (dustjacket)
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Ploughshare village [Li-she-wei], Taiwan
- Notes
- Stevan Harrell
- Parallel title in Chinese characters
- Includes index.|Bibliography: p. 219-225
- LCCN
- 82008333
- LCSH
- Taiwanese